\" She was surprised that he had noticed her existence as early as her arrival at the Beck house. "I'm sure little Jack has but one friend beside myself, in the world, and that's more than I would have ventured to say for him yesterday. While they were thus occupied, a maid-servant entered the room, and stated that a person was without who had a packet for Captain Darrell, which must be delivered into his own hands. She had been so busy with life that, for a vast gulf of time, as it seemed, she had given no thought to those ancient, imagined things of her childhood. ‘I am saying so,’ protested Gerald mildly. He was not in love with her en désespoir which, he said, was necessary if a man would marry without getting a dowry from his wife. We LIKED each other well enough. Inexplicably there flashed into vision the Chinese wedding procession in the narrow, twisted streets of the city, that first day: the gorgeous palanquin, the tomtoms, the weird music, the ribald, jeering mob that trailed along behind. But now that this bar is removed, I trust I may, without impropriety, urge it. Melusine came close again, and reached up a finger tentatively to the face depicted there. She ought to have been disposed to faint and scream at all these happenings; she ought to have maintained a front of outraged dignity to veil the sinking of her heart. She had been quite convinced that an engagement with him and at last a marriage had exactly that quality of compromise which distinguishes the ways of the wise. ” She stopped.
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