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'Then do so. 'And you, too go home, go home, Clodagh! 'But why? if one does no harm. In these days of "the corruption of the upper classes," and Roman decadence of everything, shouldn't every innocent whim be encouraged by you upright ones who strive against the tide? Whims are the brakes of crimes: and this is mine.
On that day of Clark's visit to me I had not been seated five minutes with Clodagh, when I said: 'Dr. Clark ha! ha! ha! has been talking to me about the Expedition. He says that if anything happened to Peters, I should be the first man he would run to. He has had an absurd dream... The consciousness that filled me as I uttered these words was the wickedness of me the crooked wickedness.
And from that day he and I had hardly exchanged ten words, in spite of our constant companionship in the vessel; and one day, standing alone on a floe, I found myself hissing with clenched fist: 'If he dared suspect Clodagh of poisoning Peters, I could kill him! Up to 78° of latitude the weather had been superb, but on the night of the 7th October well I remember it we experienced a great storm.
'Do I really? she answered with that haughty, stiff half-turn of her throat: 'then I must be more exquisite. But, thank Heaven, it is only a jest. Women are no longer admired for doing such things. 'Ha! ha! ha! no no logger admired, Clodagh! Oh, my good Lord! let us change this talk.... But now she could talk of nothing else.
This conversation occurred in the dining-room of Peters' house: and as we passed through the door, I saw Clodagh gliding down the passage outside rapidly away from us. Not a word I said to her that day about Clark's invitation. Yet I asked myself repeatedly: Did she not know of it? Had she not listened, and heard?
'But I told you, didn't I, that no more men will spring? You understand, Clodagh, that originally the earth produced men by a long process, beginning with a very low type of creature, and continually developing it, until at last a man stood up. But that can never happen again: for the earth is old, old, and has lost her producing vigour now.
Clodagh Riley. P.S. If possible I should like Mr. O'R. to hear that I am doing well. He has been kind since you saw me last. There was no date and no address on this letter, which filled only one page. Beverley's bewilderment passed as she studied the letter. Clo's underlying motives came to the surface with a flash.
But I was saying that when Clark left me, I was drawing on my gloves to go to see my fiancée, the Countess Clodagh, when I heard the two voices most clearly. Sometimes the urgency of one or other impulse is so overpowering, that there is no resisting it: and it was so then with the one that bid me go.
Clodagh kept up bravely until she was seated in the taxi, and could have kept up until the end without too great an effort, for her collapse had made her feel rested. It was not, however, the girl's métier to "keep up." The task was but half accomplished. The hardest part was to come.
Clodagh once confessed to me that her favourite character in history was Lucrezia Borgia, and when she saw my horror, immediately added: 'Well, no, I am only joking! Such was her duplicity: for I see now that she lived in the constant effort to hide her heinous heart from me. Yet, now I think of it, how completely did Clodagh enthral me!
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