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Updated: June 11, 2025
There must be so many others looking like herself for a haven of safety, for deliverance from lives that were unendurable. Who was she that she should aspire to this thing? To such a man she could bring but health impaired, but the remnants of her former strength. In a bit of looking-glass she saw her dark-rimmed eyes and deemed that she had lost all such looks as she had once possessed.
Craye since the night of the kiss. It was after the fourth flat dinner with Betty that he said good-night to her early and abruptly, and drove to Lady St. Craye's. She was alone. She rose to greet him, and he saw that her eyes were dark-rimmed, and her lips rough. "This is very nice of you," she said. "It's nearly a month since I saw you." "Yes," he said. "I know it is.
So too was the faded fairness of hair and skin, the frail distinguished look. So, above all, was the contrast between the minute care for personal adornment implied in the finish of the dress, and the melancholy shrinking of the dark-rimmed eyes. He watched her, through the smoke wreaths of his cigarette, pleasantly and lazily conscious both of her charm and her inconsistencies.
He, too, at heart must feel that it was not business; but he was committed to his own proposition. Would he go back upon it? It was thought to be unlikely. All waited with interest. Old Jolyon held up his hand; dark-rimmed glasses depending between his finger and thumb quivered slightly with a suggestion of menace. He addressed the strong, silent shareholder.
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