Michelle spoke to Lucy about the dinner party after the concert. ‘And then you will be obliged to remain in France,’ she pointed out. “Couldn’t we three go out and have some coffee somewhere? The thought of that drawing-room paralyses me. It was exactly as Sebastian had foreseen. ‘I find this was excessively clever of Gérard. But then—Oh! Madam, there are moments—moments of darkness, which overshadow a whole existence—in the lives of the poor houseless wretches who traverse the streets, when reason is well-nigh benighted; when the horrible promptings of despair can, alone, be listened to; and when vice itself assumes the aspect of virtue. You do not know him. ‘Lord,’ he uttered, glancing about with a disparaging eye. The beach: to get there as quickly as he could, to reach the white man's nadir of abasement and gather the promise of that soothing indifference which comes with the final disintegration of the fibres of conscience. " Something reached down into his heart and twisted it. She sat there, a mark for boulevarders, the unconscious object of numberless wondering glances. What would happen to her? Would her soul be shaken, twisted, hypnotized?—as it had been those other times? Music—that took out of her the sense of reality, whirled her into the clouds, that gave to her will the directless energy of a chip of wood on stormy waters.
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