She felt she was bound in honor to tell the whole affair to Manning sooner or later. The person, shortly afterwards ushered into the room, seemed by the imperfect light,—for the evening was advancing, and the chamber darkened by heavy drapery,—to be a middle-sized middle-aged man, of rather vulgar appearance, but with a very shrewd aspect. Not only that, but he carried himself erect— the slight slouch which had bent his shoulders had altogether disappeared. “I have given her two days’ holiday,” Anna answered. 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. She pulled the door so that it was not quite to, and held out her hand, palm up. Of you, I mean. “I’m sorry Mister McCloskey! I was out seeing my boyfriend!” He stared at her concernedly. Retracing his steps, he arrived, without further accident, at the eastern platform of the starling. You are very kind. She cursed the treachery of memory, its frailty and spottiness. “I wonder,” she murmured to herself, “if this is the beginning. How will I get an Englishman to wed me if they know that I behave not at all comme il faut?’ ‘Perhaps the Englishman in question will not care,’ suggested Prudence, with a twinkle in her eye for which Melusine was quite unable to account. . .
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