“I knew Miss Pellissier in Paris at the ‘Ambassador’s,’ and I know her now, but I am convinced that there is some mystery in connexion with her change of life. Was it that the struggle of things to survive produced as a sort of necessary byproduct these intense preferences and appreciations, or was it that some mystical outer thing, some great force, drove life beautyward, even in spite of expediency, regardless of survival value and all the manifest discretions of life? She went to Capes with that riddle and put it to him very carefully and clearly, and he talked well—he always talked at some length when she took a difficulty to him—and sent her to a various literature upon the markings of butterflies, the incomprehensible elaboration and splendor of birds of Paradise and hummingbirds’ plumes, the patterning of tigers, and a leopard’s spots. ” “At any rate,” she declared, “your remarks decided me. “Where?” “To that ball. ” “And he sat at my table,” Annabel said bitterly, “and yet he did not know me. Men of action by the scarlet coats with their grey facings—insignia of the county militia. Such pretty manners, she thought. “Ann Veronica has never looked quite so well, I think,” said Capes, clinging, because of a preconceived plan, to the suppressed topic. “I believe that you would find her in some respects curiously altered. " "If you're in earnest," rejoined Blueskin, "give me that bag of gold. ” And Ann Veronica’s face was hot. ’ Then Hilary became serious again. By a miracle, he averted its path, his hold on the girl’s mouth shifting fast to grasp her wrist. Her sadness was manageable only because she was so familiar with its phases, because she could observe its moods remotely, like an astronomer studying the moon.
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