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Such threats, as a rule, no longer move the feminine imagination; yet Justine's pity for all forms of weakness made her recognize, in the very heat of her contempt for Wyant, that his reproaches were not the mere cry of wounded vanity but the appeal of a nature conscious of its lack of recuperative power.
No, not a woman's step The door opened, and Wyant came in. Justine stood by the bed without moving toward him. He paused also, as if surprised to see her there motionless. In the intense silence she fancied for a moment that she heard Bessy's violent agonized breathing. She tried to speak, to drown the sound of the breathing; but her lips trembled too much, and she remained silent.
"While I live," he said, "no unworthy eye shall desecrate that picture. But I will not do my friend Clyde the injustice to suppose that he would send an unworthy representative. He tells me he wishes a description of the picture for his book; and you shall describe it to him if you can." Wyant hesitated, not knowing whether it was a propitious moment to put in his appeal for a photograph.
"Why do you care...for what he says...when I don't?" she breathed back with trembling lips. "You can see I am not wanted here," Wyant threw in with a sneer. Amherst remained silent for a brief space; then he turned his eyes once more to his wife. Justine lifted her face: it looked small and spent, like an extinguished taper. "It's true," she said. "True?"
She had never seen him angry but she felt suddenly that, to the guilty creature, his anger would be terrible. He would crush Wyant she must be careful how she spoke. "I didn't mean that only painful...." "Where is the letter? Let me see it." "Oh, no" she exclaimed, shrinking away. "Justine, what has happened? What ails you?"
As she glanced up in surprise she noticed for the first time an odd contraction of his pupils, and the discovery, familiar enough in her professional experience, made her disregard the abruptness of his question and softened the tone in which she answered. "I hardly know I suppose as long as I am needed." Wyant laughed. "Needed by whom? By John Amherst?"
Doctor Lombard glanced at her vaguely; he was still like a person in a trance. "Eh?" he said, rousing himself with an effort. "I said, father, that Mr. Wyant must see the picture again if he is to tell Professor Clyde about it," Miss Lombard repeated with extraordinary precision of tone. Wyant was silent.
Wyant is not strong himself and I fancy a country practice is better for him than hard work in town." "You think him clever though, do you?" Westy enquired absently.
Lombard accepted in silence this remarkable statement of her views, and her husband, with a malicious smile at Wyant's embarrassment, planted himself suddenly before the young man. "And now," said he, "do you want to see my Leonardo?" "DO I?" cried Wyant, on his feet in a flash. The doctor chuckled.
It was sad for the young man, however, who was said to be deeply in love, and to find frequent excuses for coming to Siena to inspect his mother's estate. Viewed in the light of Count Ottaviano's personality the story had a tinge of opera bouffe; but the next morning, as Wyant mounted the stairs of the House of the Dead Hand, the situation insensibly assumed another aspect.
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