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The woman's eyes quickly followed in the direction indicated. Was it a curse the woman muttered as she watched the fair, golden-haired young girl-wife's head resting against Basil Hurlhurst's breast, his arms clasped lovingly about her? "Go, Pluma!" she commanded, bitterly. Quickly and cautiously the child sped on her fatal errand through the storm and the darkness.
If her husband was the sorriest lover who ever poured thick-voiced flatteries into a girl-wife's ears, there were others, plenty of them, who were eager to pay more acceptable homage to her; and these men poets, courtiers, great men in art and letters flocked to her salon to bask in her beauty and to be charmed by her wit. After all, she was a Queen, although she wore no crown.
Her manner of approaching the simple country folk was so gracious and winning that they freely gave her any information they possessed, and chatted with her unreservedly. Sometimes Louise would make her rounds alone, but often Arthur would join her for an afternoon drive to Huntingdon, and it greatly amused him to listen to his girl-wife's adroit manner of "pumping the natives."
In twelve months his girl-wife's recent infatuation might be as distasteful to her mind as it was now to his own. In a few years her very flesh would change so said the scientific; her spirit, so much more ephemeral, was capable of changing in one. Betty was his, and it became a mere question of means how to effect that change. During the day Mrs.
Doctors talk a lot of gibberish these here days. What I want to know is, has my wife got a disease? I haven't seen any signs. Is it Bright's, or cancer, or the lungs, or the liver, or the kidneys, or the heart, or what's its name?" The Young Doctor had an impulse to flay the heathen, but for the girl-wife's sake he forbore. "I don't think it is any of those troubles," he replied smoothly.
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