There was a new softness in her eyes, a hesitation, a timidity about her manner which was almost pathetic. Wood had the advantage of her husband in point of years, being on the sunny side of forty,—a period pronounced by competent judges to be the most fascinating, and, at the same time, most critical epoch of woman's existence,—whereas, he was on the shady side of fifty,—a term of life not generally conceived to have any special recommendation in female eyes. “It doesn’t matter,” she said, after a long interval, “if they are absurd. ‘But I was not there. The thought made her exquisitely happy. A wife formed part of his scheme of life, for several years he had been secretly but assiduously looking for her. He could not pull her soul apart now to satisfy that queer absorbing, delving thing which was his literary curiosity; he had put her outside that circle. ” Chapter II THE ADVENTURE OF ANNABEL The man spoke mercilessly, incisively, as a surgeon. For the fresh and feverish hue of lip which years ago characterised this feature, was now substituted a pure and wholesome bloom, evincing a total change of habits; and, though the coarse character of the mouth remained, in some degree, unaltered, it was so modified in expression, that it could no longer be accounted a blemish. There all the loose characters thronged, assignations were openly made, and the spectators diverted themselves with the vagaries of its miserable inhabitants. I know who hits hardest. They even threatened to cut the traces and take off the wheels from the carriage. 1. S.
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