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Nancy's dress had an emphasis of fashion formerly unknown to it; appropriate enough considering her new occupation. The flush upon her cheeks, the light of doubtful meaning in her eyes, gave splendour to a beauty matured by motherhood. In the dark street, a fortnight ago, Tarrant could hardly be said to have seen her; he gazed in wonder and admiration. 'What has brought you here?
That I had been within an ace of capture was palpable. But why? I was in the service of the man who controlled that vast criminal organization which the police of Europe were ever trying to break up. But why should I be sent to meet the mysterious hunchback Tarrant on Clifton Bridge?
I meant, have you many friends? 'Friends, no. A good many acquaintances. 'Men, like yourself? 'Mostly men, fellows who talk about art and literature. 'And women? Nancy faltered, half turning away. 'Oh, magnificent creatures Greek scholars mathematicians all that is most advanced! 'That's the right answer to a silly question, said Nancy humbly. Whereat, Tarrant fixed his gaze upon her.
Selah Tarrant and his companion had strange adventures; she found herself completely enrolled in the great irregular army of nostrum-mongers, domiciled in humanitary Bohemia. It absorbed her like a social swamp; she sank into it a little more every day, without measuring the inches of her descent. Now she stood there up to her chin; it may probably be said of her that she had touched bottom.
Verena Tarrant saw that she was the object of this manifestation, and she got up to meet the lady whose approach was so full of point. Ransom perceived, however, or thought he perceived, that she recognised nothing; she had no suspicions of social importance.
"It is all very fine," said Tarrant, "and if you chaps are pleased, you are welcome; but I don't call this riding on a camel. I had as soon have stopped with my own regiment, amongst sensible and pleasant lads, and taken my chance, as have volunteered to join this corps, if I had known I was to march all the same, and lug a beast of a boat after me too. I expected to have a camel to ride on."
I may as well say at once that she traversed most of this period without further serious alarms and with a great many little thrills of bliss and hope. Nothing happened to dissipate the good omens with which her partnership with Verena Tarrant was at present surrounded. They threw themselves into study; they had innumerable big books from the Athenæum, and consumed the midnight oil.
And ever they give me praise and gold, And ever I moan my loss; For I struck the blow for my false Love's sake, And not for the men of the Moss! Tarrant Moss. One of the many curses of our life in India is the want of atmosphere in the painter's sense. There are no half-tints worth noticing. Men stand out all crude and raw, with nothing to tone them down, and nothing to scale them against.
His friends knew that in spite of his delicacy and his prattle he was what they called a live man; his appearance was perfectly reconcilable with a large degree of literary enterprise. It should be explained that for the most part they attached to this idea the same meaning as Selah Tarrant a state of intimacy with the newspapers, the cultivation of the great arts of publicity.
'Will you read me a paragraph of Helmholtz? continued the other, looking at her with a smile. 'Any paragraph, the one before you. She hesitated, but read at length, in an unsteady voice, something about the Conservation of Force. It ended in a nervous laugh. 'Now I'll read something to you, said Tarrant.
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