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The one future for him was that in which floated mystically the figure of the scented serpent-woman, and he felt that that drift of things he was relying on had begun by a wrong move. "Perhaps I shall write stories," he hazarded. "You alarm me," she cried. "Your idea is hopelessly impracticable. How could you possibly hope to rival the Robert Ingrams?"
And the seductive picture of the scented serpent-woman, ever smiling at him now with gleaming teeth, symbolised the future for him, and alone preserved the continuity of interest that stimulated him to go forward at all.
For he, who had made a failure of his existence, whose one remaining link with life was a mere grotesque possibility of an adventure with an unknown serpent-woman, loved Margaret Medhurst with a poet's despairing love. The figure of the scented woman floated up again. She had let the letter fall into her lap now and her wonderful face seemed to smile at him.
No doubt the others will now be glad to hear our views on tobacco smoke." Morgan was conscious of a strange glow of pleasure, of a strange satisfaction. All his sense of romance and mystery was astir. How charming was the promise of the phantasy to come! The smiling, scented serpent-woman was holding her arms to him!
And always before him rose the figure of the scented serpent-woman holding his letter in her long fingers, her white teeth gleaming in mockery! "I shall live live!" he exclaimed, as he entered his own door at last. He lighted the gas in his large, comfortable sitting-room, and noticed there were letters for him on the mantel resting against the clock, whose hands pointed to half-past two.
The vague figure of a scented woman reading his letter haunted him, and at moments Ingram was added to the picture, and he saw them uniting in mockery of him prosaic, prosperous author, and strange, romantic serpent-woman! Though that letter of five years before had been wrung from him, he had written it with but the vaguest idea of sending it.
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