She washed her face with unwonted elaboration before she went to bed. Her figure, though slight, had all the fulness of health; and her complexion—still pale, but without its former sickly cast,—contrasted agreeably, by its extreme fairness, with the dark brows and darker lashes that shaded eyes which, if they had lost some of their original brilliancy, had gained infinitely more in the soft and chastened lustre that replaced it. “Everything goes on, confound it! One doesn’t change anything one has set going by making good resolutions. Oh, what’s his name? It’s on the tip of my tongue. His name is Taber?" "Howard Taber. “Will you be moral and your species, or immoral and yourself? We’ve decided to be immoral. I give you the plain, unadulterated truth. And yet—I love you. They may love us, but they love us as the slave loves his captor, not as equals. 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. It was one of the secret troubles of her mind, this grotesque twist her ideas would sometimes take, as though they rebelled and rioted. She can be of use to me yet.
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