” “I had to,” she repeated. But her cries, instead of moving her assailant's compassion, only added to his fury. "I never saw the like of you! One has to guard one's actions constantly in this wicked world, if one is a woman, young and pretty. What was it in her heart or mind or soul that went out to this man? Music—was that it? Was he powerless to stir her without the gift? But hadn't he fascinated her by his talk, gentle and winning? Ah, but that had been after he had played for her. Under the somewhat trying incandescent light her cheeks pleaded guilty to a recent use of the powder puff. He flung aside all his talk of help and disinterested friendship as though it had never been even a disguise between them, as though from the first it was no more than a fancy dress they had put quite understandingly upon their relationship. I do not love any one. ” “Perhaps you remember me, Miss Pellissier,” the second young man interposed. You have never felt the hearts of all hardened against you; have never heard the jeer or curse from every lip; nor endured the insult and the blow from every hand. ” Ann Veronica responded with conviction: “I wish so, too.
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