Like the parrot, she could memorize the lines, but she could not understand them. There he sat, cheerfully friendly in his sex’s freedom—the man she loved, the one man she cared should unlock the way to the wide world for her imprisoned feminine possibilities, and he seemed regardless that she stifled under his eyes; he made a jest of all this passionate insurgence of the souls of women against the fate of their conditions. He had not been successful as the world counted success; the fat bank-account, the filled waiting room of which he had once dreamed, had never materialized except in the smoke of his evening pipe. She felt she had stepped into a world of unknown usages. “I killed him. I did not know what God had in mind then. He was standing at the moment close to the hatch, with his ear at the keyhole, and received a severe blow in the face. As to Thames, though deeply and painfully affected by the horrible occurrence that had marked his return to his old friends, he was yet able to control his feelings, and devote himself to the alleviation of the distress of the more immediate sufferers by the calamity. He had not thought to find a lady so ready of humour and willing to give him a hearing. His strength has been described as prodigious; but now, heightened by his desire for vengeance, it was irresistible. “Is Lady Lescelles in?” he asked the butler. Her breath came fast in little sobbing pants. He heard the woman talking again. But all of that was forgotten.
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