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Naturally, she had never meant permanently to hurt or injure Roger! She had done it for his good as well as her own. Yet even as she put this plea forward in the inner tribunal of consciousness, she knew that it was false. "You have murdered a life!" Well, that was what prejudiced and hide-bound persons like Alfred Boyson said, and no doubt always would say.
I say, darling, this is going to be a disappointment." Mrs. Boyson, however, was not so sure. The lovely "nocturne" of the evening plain had passed into a Vision or Masque of Force that captured the mind. High above the gulf rose the towers of the great works, transformed by the surging fog and darkness into some piled and castled fortress; a fortress of Science held by Intelligence.
"You heard, I presume, from Captain Boyson that my wife and I were extremely anxious about Roger's ways and habits; that we cannot induce him, or, at any rate, we have not yet been able to induce him, to give up drinking; that his health is extremely bad, and that we are sometimes afraid that there is now some secret in his life of which he is ashamed?"
Verrier said to herself not altogether shrewdly that he had no nerves, or no heart; and Daphne had not yet come across the genus. Her lovers had either possessed too much heart like Captain Boyson or a lack of coolness, when it really came to the point of grappling with Daphne and her millions, as in the case of a dozen she could name.
Boyson threw his arm round his young wife and pressed her to him, kissing her face and hair, bedewed by the spray. She clung to him passionately, trembling a little, as the roar deafened them and the fog swept round them.
French left the room for a moment, and returned accompanied by a fair-haired, straight-shouldered man, whom he introduced to Penrose as Captain Boyson. Roger rose from his chair to shake hands. "How do you do, Boyson? I've told them you know all about it." He dropped back heavily into his seat. "I thought I might possibly put in a word," said the new-comer, glancing from Roger to his friends.
Cecilia Boyson, glancing at him with a laughing eye, said in Roger's ear: "How sad it is that your uncle dislikes us so!" "Us? What do you mean?" "That he hates America so. Oh, don't say he doesn't, because I've watched him, at one, two, three parties.
Was it her fault that she possessed those brilliant eyes eyes, as it seemed, of the typical, essential woman? and that downy brunette skin, with the tinge in it of damask red? and that instinctive art of lovely gesture in which her whole being seemed to express itself? Boyson, who was not only a rising soldier, but an excellent amateur artist, knew every line of the face by heart.
And held by his will, she told him everything all the piteous story of the child's last days sobbing herself; and for the first time making much of the little one's signs of remembering her father, instead of minimizing and ignoring them, as she had done in the talk with Boyson. It was as though for the first time she were trying to stanch a wound instead of widening it. He listened eagerly.
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