She wanted to think of him as her
beloved person, to be near him and watch him, to have him going about, doing
this and that, saying this and that, unconscious of her, while she too remained
unconscious of herself. She had a bittersweet
fragrance, like dusty books and honeysuckle. Fortescue?”
“At your service. It seemed to them
they could never have been really alive before, but only dimly anticipating
existence. Ramage, that iron-gray
man of the world, appeared dressed in a bowler hat and a suit of hard gray,
astride of a black horse. He hated the taste of it. And, setting down the
link, he proceeded deliberately to untie his cravat. ’
‘Of what use to be ladylike when I cannot be a lady?’
‘None of that. Ann Veronica found herself in a little stirring crowd of excited women,
whispering and tittering and speaking in undertones. But there was something else;
and in his befogged mental state the comparison eluded him. His new wife’s face was sweet and angelic with hair
the color of flax, her belly already visibly large beneath a
roe skin pelt. "
"For an old bachelor?"
"A human old bachelor. Earles said persuasively. I asked several shopkeepers the
same question:
‘Do you know the blue-eyed maid with the curly
brown hair? She has a mother who is fair with the same
eyes. Couldn’t face me with what he’d done, the miserable blackguard.
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