” “How do you mean, differently, Sebastian?” “Truly beautiful women are exceedingly rare and they always have been, Lucia. How long he sat there, reeling off this drivel, he never knew. 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. Seeing her improved mood, he had offered the Latin reading lesson strategically, knowing it would surprise her that he considered her capable. The effort to maintain her self-control was almost superhuman. Through all this flutter of novelty there came and went a solicitous, preoccupied, almost depressed figure. It's infernally provoking. ” Sir John coughed. ” “But how?” “I poured him out some port wine, and I said—let me see—oh, ‘You are going to be a grandfather!’” “Yes. But finding his hints totally disregarded, he, at length, swaggered up to the table, and thrust in a chair. I want to leave Paris to-day. He would teach her all he knew of life so that if the Hand should ever reach his shoulder, she would be able to defend herself. Such was the effect produced upon the passengers by his good looks and manly deportment, that few—especially of the gentler and more susceptible sex—failed to turn round and bestow a second glance upon the handsome stranger. In the hall below she could hear his firm voice giving quick commands to the servants.
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