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"Excuse me; I forgot for the moment that we are in a church. But I am taking consequences, these days." She looked out from the cool, dark refuge of the vestibule when he mounted and rode on, and her heart was full. It was madness, vindictive madness and fell anger. But it was a generous wrath, large and manlike.
In the center of the clearing below her, clearly visible in the bright moonlight, she saw fully twenty huge, manlike apes great, shaggy fellows who went upon their hind feet with only slight assistance from the knuckles of their hands.
Their past experience of Caspak had taught them that they might expect to come upon a stagnant pool of warm water if they followed the stream to its source; but there they were almost certain to find some of Caspak's grotesque, manlike creatures.
He was indeed his mother's boy; and it was fortunate his mother was not altogether feminine. She gave her son a womanly delicacy in morals, to a man's taste to his own taste in later life too finely spun, and perhaps more elegant than healthful. She encouraged him besides in drawing-room interests. But in other points her influence was manlike.
And the choicest women are those who yield not a feather of their womanliness for some amount of manlike strength. And she is one; man's brain, woman's heart. I thought her unique till I heard of you. And how do I stand between you two? She has the only fault you can charge me with; she is before me in time, as I am before you. Shall I spoil you as she spoilt me? No, no!
Her instinct whispered that it had left its mark, a hidden mark. And while she knew that consideration for her prompted him to hold his peace, she told herself that she would have been happier had he spoken of it. Always she was brought back to Grenoble when she saw him thus, manlike, with his gaze steadily fixed on the task.
He looked at the stranger, a very well dressed gentlemanly man too manlike for a tailor too polished for a horse-dealer; his Wellingtons were brightly polished he was perhaps his boot-maker. "Oh, you wish to see Mr Chatterton?" he said aloud. "Very much," replied the stranger. "I have some business with him that admits of no delay." "An arrest at least," thought the youth.
Nevertheless, the man who had helped other men to die unflinchingly was facing death with a grave, unflinching smile, albeit life to him was good and full of promise. The interval was short. He would pass through it in manlike fashion, and, meanwhile, give thanks that beside his bed sat the one woman in whom his whole future so long had centered. The slow moments passed by, unheeded.
Thus, manlike, does Walter push aside all part and lot in the affaires du coeur of his fellow-travellers; but I have just had a brilliant and beautiful idea, which I intend to communicate to Archie at once. We were all talking en route of the Château of Vaux-le-Vicomte.
We all watched her until she was hidden from sight by the shadows of a grove of pines, and I still remember the shudder with which I saw her plunge recklessly into the gloom manlike, careful about her beautiful body, and not regarding her tender girl heart." "That must have been a pleasant half hour for you," I could not help remarking. "Pleasant! yes; we were like a lot of devils chained.
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