” She chilled Ann Veronica a little by that last phrase, and yet the magnetism of her fellowship and enthusiasm was very strong; and it was pleasant to be made out a heroine after so much expostulation and so many secret doubts. “Tell me his name,” he said, “and I promise that he shall never trouble you. I didn’t allow myself to see things as they were in those days; now I do. She moved towards it slowly and picked it up, holding it out in front of her whilst the familiar perfume seemed to assert itself with damning insistence. Strange, I could never learn her history. Will you?” She thought, and it seemed to him she had never looked so self-disciplined and deliberate and beautiful. It had been cut down before life was extinct, but a ball from one of the soldiers had pierced his heart. An unwelcome idea came to him. And next morning she attired herself with especial care and neatness, found his address in the Directory at a post-office, and went to him. “None, I thank you,” he answered. The doll she had never owned, the cat and the dog that had never been hers: here they were, strangely incorporated in this sleeping man. ‘How could you? No wonder mademoiselle is angry with you.
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