She had black
hair, fine eyebrows, and a clear complexion; and the forces that had modelled
her features had loved and lingered at their work and made them subtle and fine. ’
He sat looking her over in silence for a moment or two, his thoughts revolving
around the name and the way it fitted so exquisitely on quite another set of
features. She had
tried him as a Crusader, in which guise he seemed plausible but heavy—“There
IS something heavy about him; I wonder if it’s his mustache?”—and as a Hussar,
which made him preposterous, and as a Black Brunswicker, which was better,
and as an Arab sheik. Perhaps you'll
call that charity: I call it defeating the ends of justice. She wondered abjectly whether he
intended to rape her before she was dead. "I can't say I did," replied Wood, somewhat reluctantly; "what with the confusion
incident to the storm, and the subsequent press of business, I put it off till it was
too late. He had finally put aside The Lilac
Sunbonnet, gone into his study, lit the gas fire, and written the letter that had
brought these unsatisfactory relations to a head.
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