” The dinner came to an end at last, and the whiskered waiter presented his bill and evacuated the apartment and closed the door behind him with an almost ostentatious discretion. A fresh cool breeze blew in their faces. Rhea spun round and sank her teeth into Lucy’s arm. She could not look at him through an interval that seemed to her a vast gulf of time. Hitchings, who seem to be absolutely engrossed in one another, and a boy of about seventeen, who no sooner got here than he discovered that he wanted to see a man in the promenade and disappeared. Papillon would have broken him down; anything tender would have sapped his will; and like as not he would have left the stool and rushed into the night. Afterward he stole out of the room with the bloodstained sheet to boast her virginity to his brothers and father, which only truly mattered because she was beautiful, her mother had said. The thought of beauty became an obsession. ‘Not kill me, I mean. You would find things to laugh at even in Artemus Ward.
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