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So you make the sign of the cross as a protection. That's right! That's the way to defend yourself from my evil influence! Wise Manella!" The light mockery of his tone roused her pride, that pride which had been suppressed in her by the force of a passionate emotion she could not restrain. She lifted her head and regarded him with an air of sorrow and scorn.
And her cleverness makes her see the sham of life all through; the absurdity of birth that ends in death the freakishness of civilisation to no purpose and she's out for something else. She wants some thing newer than sex-attraction and family life. A husband would bore her to extinction the care of children would send her into a lunatic asylum!" Manella looked bewildered.
Though you come 'again and yet again and ever so often' as you say, you will not find me dead! I'm too strong!" But Manella, yielding to her inward excitement, pointed a hand at him with a warning air of a tragedy queen. "Do not boast!" she said "God is always listening! No man is too strong for God! I am not clever I have no knowledge of what you do but this I will tell you surely!
"You are very good-looking, Manella" he then remarked, lazily "Quite the model for a Juno. Be satisfied with yourself. You should have scores of lovers!" She stamped her foot suddenly and impatiently. "I have none!" she said "And you know it! But you do not care!" He shook a reproachful forefinger at her. "Manella, Manella, you are naughty! Temper, temper! Of course I do not care! Be reasonable!
When Roger Seaton confessed to the girl Manella that his real desire was to bend and subdue Morgana's intellectuality to his own, he spoke the truth, not only for himself but for all men. Absolutely disinterested love for a brilliantly endowed woman would be difficult to find in any male nature, men love what is inferior to themselves, not superior.
As for love " He paused, and going to the door of the hut looked out. "Manella, there is a big cloud in the west just over the ocean. It is shaped like a great white eagle and its wings are edged with gold, it is the beginning of a fine sunset. Come and look at it, and while we watch it floating along I will talk to you about love!"
Whether I love or hate anybody or anything is no affair of yours! How dare you speak to me as if it were!" She shrank away from him. Her lips quivered, and tears welled through her lashes. "Forgive me! ... oh, forgive!" she murmured, pleadingly "I am sorry!..." "So you ought to be!" he retorted "You Manella imagine yourself in love with me ... yes, you do! and you cannot leave me alone!
As he vanished there was a sudden cry a rush as of wings and a woman sprang up from amid bushes where she had lain hidden, it was Manella.
"Wise Manella!" he repeated, his voice shaking a little, while he fought with the insidious temptation which beset him, the temptation to draw her into his arms and take his fill of the love she was so ready to give "They always marry? No dear, they do NOT! Many of them avoid marriage " he paused, then continued "and do you know why?" She shook her head. "Because it is the end of romance!
Then she had seen Manella, and had naturally drawn her own conclusions, based on the girl's rich beauty which was so temptingly set within his reach. He began to talk to himself aloud once more, picking up the thread of his broken converse where he had left it "If it were Morgana it would be far worse than if it were Manella!" he said "The one is too stupid the other too clever.
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