Wood dandled his little charge to and fro, after the most approved nursery fashion, essaying at the same time the soothing influence of an infantine melody proper to the occasion; but, failing in his design, he soon lost all patience, and being, as we have before hinted, rather irritable, though extremely well-meaning, he lifted the unhappy bantling in the air, and shook him with so much good will, that he had well-nigh silenced him most effectually. He had not addressed to her even the most ordinary courtesy of fellow travellers; she doubted that he was even aware of her existence. “Forty guineas a week. She stared down at them from a high window, peering down at their moonlit faces in the bed heavy with furs, the same bed where she had given birth to Gianfrancesco’s dead son. It was his belief that the French had enough troubles of their own in these difficult times without bothering to nose out British business. He sounds to me like a soldier of fortune. " "Confusion!" thundered Wild. Every time he left a room, she chastised herself bitterly for her own profound weakness. Yesterday this glorious creature had loved him; to-day she was only friendly. What a pity! For all her ignorance of material things—the human inventions which served the physical comforts of man—how much she knew about man himself! She had seen him bereft of all those spiritual props which permit man to walk on two feet instead of four—broken, without resilience.
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