. She laughed a little contemptuously. ’ So saying, she threw a meaning look over her shoulder at Lucilla, much to Gerald’s approval. He was daring enough to have seized and carried him off before the whole congregation, but he preferred waiting. ’ ‘He doesn’t sound like a desirable parti. “What have I been all this time?” she asked herself, and answered, “Just stark egotism, crude assertion of Ann Veronica, without a modest rag of religion or discipline or respect for authority to cover me!” It seemed to her as though she had at last found the touchstone of conduct. Was it that the struggle of things to survive produced as a sort of necessary byproduct these intense preferences and appreciations, or was it that some mystical outer thing, some great force, drove life beautyward, even in spite of expediency, regardless of survival value and all the manifest discretions of life? She went to Capes with that riddle and put it to him very carefully and clearly, and he talked well—he always talked at some length when she took a difficulty to him—and sent her to a various literature upon the markings of butterflies, the incomprehensible elaboration and splendor of birds of Paradise and hummingbirds’ plumes, the patterning of tigers, and a leopard’s spots. “He is very kind, Anna, really, and not half such a prig as he seems. She had gone into Morgan's one afternoon for a bag of salt. ’ ‘Are you off your head? Think I don’t know you’re up to some mischief or other?’ Melusine feigned innocence. ‘As for an heir, I have Alderley cousins enough. Diane spoke first. She would not let her move. She would be haunted by the visions of their mad faces in her dreams for the next hundred years.
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