But that instinct is severely dampened most of the time. “I will tell you all that I know,” Anna said. ” She eyed him scornfully. He began a jerky, broken conversation that lasted until they reached the station, and left her puzzled at its drift and meaning. She was dressed in a tattered black stuff gown, discoloured by various stains, and intended, it would seem, from the remnants of rusty crape with which it was here and there tricked out, to represent the garb of widowhood, and held in her arms a sleeping infant, swathed in the folds of a linsey-woolsey shawl. A sudden knock at the door startled her. He took her hand in his, raising it closer, and gently touched the maltreated skin. ” “Why not?” She turned on him. " "I see. ’ ‘Why the devil should you be interested, I should like to know?’ rejoined Roding. But, alas! she was beautiful—and beauty is a crime not to be forgiven by a jealous woman. Day after day she pounded him with curses, saying that her mother looked down on him from Heaven and sent a curse, to which he laughed. But who would pay the ransom? There was no one left in his family. As Leonardo had himself pronounced, who better than a mountebank to teach of the perils awaiting the unwary? Who better than a wastrel to demonstrate the worth of thrift? And who could instruct better in the matter of affections than one who had thrown them away? ‘If he had loved me,’ she said, in the flat tone she had learned to use to conceal her vulnerable heart, ‘he would have left me at Remenham House to live a life of an English lady.
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