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After a pause, "Of course," said Lady Claire in so gentle a little voice that it seemed to glide undisturbingly among his silent meditations, "of course, a man has his pride." "I hope so," said the young man briefly.
We know now that life is a constant death and a renewing, that our every-day nutrition involves millions of molecular deaths and as many millions of births, although to liken that which is so exquisitely managed, so undisturbingly done, to the coarser phenomena of death and birth is in a measure misleading.
And the combined effect of all these varied sounds was so different from the sound of Paris, or New York, or Berlin, that an intelligent blind man would have known where he was, if softly and undisturbingly dropped from a balloon to a safe street corner. Brigit Mead had no particular love for the old town, just as she had no particular love for her little brother's country-house.
She seemed to have discovered the trick of coming and going undisturbingly. She was docile and affectionate, but not in the least sentimental.
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