She had expected a love story; and love was totally absent. I must go to-night, or I shall never behold him again. Do you think that it makes for happiness to force oneself into the extravagant belief that love is the only thing in the world worth having, and to sacrifice for it independence, self-respect, one’s whole scheme of life. She went further: she doubted that he was fully conscious of where he was. It was a night well-fitted to their enterprise, calm, still, and profoundly dark. ‘I’ll send one of my men to see you here this very evening. We were properly married, and the certificate is at my lawyer’s. Very slowly emerging out of a phase of stupefaction, these personal affairs and her personal problem resumed possession of her mind. In this state Mrs. There sat Jack, evidently in the last stage of intoxication, with his collar opened, his dress disarranged, a pipe in his mouth, a bowl of punch and a halfemptied rummer before him,—there he sat, receiving and returning, or rather attempting to return,—for he was almost past consciousness,—the blandishments of a couple of females, one of whom had passed her arm round his neck, while the other leaned over the back of his chair and appeared from her gestures to be whispering soft nonsense into his ear. She was quite tired of the stream of visitors and heard with relief the words of her newfound great-aunt, addressed to her son’s butler. ‘Poor Gerald has been very busy about your affairs this last week. All of which proves that the doctor also had his moments of distraction, with this difference: he was not distracted from his subject matter.
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