"You've hit it," answered Sheppard. Time after
time he reminded her of how powerless she would be
without him, how unkind the world was towards single
women. Her eye met his four inches away, and his was glaring,
immense, and full of resolution, a stupendous monster of an eye. There was a deep groan, and the sound of a fall within. "The devil you have!" thundered a voice from behind, that filled the apprentice
with dismay. The eyes left him, searching beside the chair
for her cane. She saw herself begin a slow, sinuous
dance: and stop suddenly in the middle of a figure, conscious that the dance was
not impromptu, her own, but native—the same dance she had quitted but a few
minutes gone. "
"Not now—not now!" she returned, with a shudder. "
And, as he spoke, he took up a sheet of paper, and hastily traced a few lines upon
it. “You can’t imagine,” he said, “what a beastly thing a furtive love affair can
be. ‘Not but what it
was near that before Jarvis died.
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