This too shall pass. And yet—he thought of the supper party where he had met
Annabel Pellissier, the stories about her, his own few minutes’ whispered lovemaking! He was a self-contained young man, but his cheeks grew hot at the
thought of the things which it had seemed quite natural to say to her then, but
which he knew very well would have been instantly resented by the girl whom
he had just left. “Why should one pretend?
“Think of all the beauty in the world that is covered up and overlaid. Incursions were often made upon its territories
by the functionaries of the law; sometimes attended with success, but more
frequently with discomfiture; and it rarely happened, unless by stratagem or
bribery, that (in the language of the gentlemen of the short staff) an important
caption could be effected. Parties, politics, and
popular opinions have changed.
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