” “Then I was never married to him at all?” Annabel said. Gerald, whose French was adequate from his military service abroad, was able to respond suitably to such remarks as the ladies addressed to him, but was less exercised by their fashionable dress than their decidedly careworn appearance. ‘Lord,’ Gerald uttered, his inexplicable annoyance evaporating. And now she was witnessing or observing the complicated machinery of civilization through which they had come, at length to land on the beach of her island. ‘I thought you said you take housebreaking very seriously. They were talking of “Alcide,” as they often did in those days. " "And you married me, knowing?" "I married the man who bought a sing-song girl to give her her freedom. ‘Like you?’ ‘But I am not French. And they could talk, they found; and never once, it seemed, did their meaning and intention hitch. She was an indignant queen, no doubt she was alarmed and disgusted within limits; but she was highly excited, and there was something, some low adventurous strain in her being, some element, subtle at least if base, going about the rioting ways and crowded insurgent meeting-places of her mind declaring that the whole affair was after all—they are the only words that express it—a very great lark indeed.
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