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"You have not seen many men?" "Oh, yes, I have!" and Manella tossed her head airily "Men all more or less alike greedy for dollars, fond of smoke and cinema women, I do not care for them. Some have asked me to marry, but I would rather hang myself than be wife to one of them!"
Manella shrugged her shoulders with a charming air of indifference. "I? How should I know? He is your friend I suppose?" "Not a bit of it!" and Roger stretched himself lazily and yawned "He's the friend of nobody who is poor. But he's the comrade of everybody with plenty of cash. He's as hard as a dried old walnut, without the shred of a heart "
But Morgana never wavered in her belief that they lived, and hour after hour, day after day she watched with untiring patience, administering the mysterious balm or portion which she kept preciously in her own possession, and not till the fifth day of her vigil, when Manella showed faint signs of returning consciousness, did she send to Rome for a famous scientist and physician with whom she had frequently corresponded.
Yes it was very well planned! effective in its way, though it left me cold!" "Ah, but it did NOT leave you cold!" cried Manella; "Else you would not have come down to see her to-day! You say she went 'to ferret you out' " "Of course she did" he interrupted her "She would ferret out any man she wanted for the moment.
Manella rose from her seat beside him. The warm light in her eyes had gone her face was pale, and as she drew herself up to her stately height she made a picture of noble scorn. "I am sorry for you!" she said. "If you think these things your thoughts are quite dreadful! You are a cruel man after all!
He knows nothing! He speaks a few words, but he has no consciousness of what he is saying." Manella looked at her wonderingly "Ah, that is because he is not himself yet" she said "The crash of the rocks the pouring of the flood this was enough to kill him but he will recover in a little while and he will know you! yes, he will know you, and he will thank God for life to see you!"
On a sudden impulse he put an arm about her, drew her to him and kissed her. She trembled at his caress, while he smiled at her emotion. "A kiss is nothing, Manella!" he said "We kiss children as I kiss you! You are a child, a child-woman. Physically you are a Juno, mentally you are an infant! By and by you will grow up, and you will be glad I did no more than kiss you!
Now think me as brutal as you like I say a woman is very like a female silkworm, she comes out of her beautiful silken cocoon of maidenhood with wings which she doesn't know how to use she merely flutters about waiting to be 'loved' and when this dream she calls 'love' comes to her, she doesn't dream any longer she wakes to find her life finished! finished, Manella! dry as a gourd with all the juice run out!"
And she indicated by a gesture the next room where Roger Seaton lay. A cold horror ran through Morgana's blood. HIS work! the widespread ruin of villages and townships, the devastation of a vast tract of country the deaths of hundreds of men, women and little children HIS work? Could it be possible? She stood transfixed, while Manella went on
He strode on, and Manella stood watching him, her tall handsome figure silhouetted against the burning sky. Her dark eyes were moist with suppressed tears of shame and suffering, she felt herself to be wronged and slighted undeservedly.
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