” She stood up and held her arms toward him. He became a little less en garde. He could not pull her soul apart now to satisfy that queer absorbing, delving thing which was his literary curiosity; he had put her outside that circle. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way? CHAPTER XV Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry, so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. “No,” she answered. He had a quick, shrewd, merry eye, and a look in which duplicity was agreeably veiled by good humour. I consider her a very charming young woman—and I won’t hear a word about Paris, for there are things I don’t understand about that, but I will stake my word upon it that to-day Miss Pellissier is entitled not only to our admiration, but to our respect. The last of Jarvis’s harlots must have departed in a hurry, for she had apparently left a roomful of clothes. This obstacle, which appeared to preclude the possibility of egress in that quarter, was speedily got rid of. A short way off in the fields he descried a sort of shed or cow-house, and thither he contrived to drag his weary limbs. "Here!" shrieked Lady Trafford.
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