"A good idea!" exclaimed the carpenter. These and her
general preparations had perhaps a certain disproportion. There is a tragedy to come. She was never able to
trace the changes her attitude had undergone, from the time when she believed
herself to be the pampered Queen of Fortune, the crown of a good man’s love
(and secretly, but nobly, worshipping some one else), to the time when she
realized she was in fact just a mannequin for her lover’s imagination, and that he
cared no more for the realities of her being, for the things she felt and desired,
for the passions and dreams that might move her, than a child cares for the
sawdust in its doll. “Very well,” he said. ”
He bent and kissed her hair and paused, and then forced his attention back to
the map. So while he talked to this girl of work and freedom, his slightly protuberant
eyes were noting the gracious balance of her limbs and body across the gate, the
fine lines of her chin and neck. Her face reminded him of a delicate
unglazed porcelain cup, filled with blond wine. ’
‘And you believe her?’ asked Lucilla, raising her brows. With a
little sigh of happiness she accepted this new thing. ”
He was suddenly calm. They were childless and servantless, and they had
reduced simple living to the finest of fine arts. “Why don’t you?”
“Well, it might mean rather a row. ‘Don’t let us quarrel over your Leonardo,’ he said, summoning a faint smile. Much has been advanced by modern writers respecting the demoralising effect
of prison society; and it has been asserted, that a youth once confined in
Newgate, is certain to come out a confirmed thief.
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