After the twins were past the toddling age, Clotilde
finally caught on when the children cleaved to Lucia’s
breast when it was time to leave for a fortnight abroad. Next
instant he had her immobilised, her hands behind her back, her chest crushed to
his, the white veil slipping once again. . She saw her
discarded nun’s habit still on the floor and scooped it up. There was a young lad ahead of her. He returned her
to her door at a decent hour, well before 10:00. Great sport, eh? To haul them back from the ragged edge. . “I shall come back, if at all, a new man. . A woman hard to read, who seemed to delight in keeping locked up
behind that fascinating rigidity of feature the intense sensibility which had been
revealed to him, her master, only in occasional and rare moments of enthusiasm. And here, we may be permitted to offer an observation upon the peculiar and
unaccountable influence which ladies of a shrewish turn so frequently exercise
over—we can scarcely, in this case, say—their lords and masters; an influence
which seems not merely to extend to the will of the husband, but even to his
inclinations. ’
‘Where then is your uniform?’
‘I don’t wear it to balls. I have very few friends in Paris. A
full-curled wig descended half-way down his back and shoulders; a neckcloth of
"right Mechlin" was twisted round his throat so tightly as almost to deprive him
of breath, and threaten him with apoplexy; he had lace, also, at his wrists and
bosom; gold clocks to his hose, and red heels to his shoes.
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