She moved a little nearer to him. “You might have given me a chance, anyway. She was obliged to concede that his features were pleasing, his strength and vitality attractive; and there was no denying how well this uniform of a militia suited his figure, which was lean and powerful both. ‘She is constantly thinking of you,’ I said. From time to time, however, he was baffled. A sense of loss was amongst us. If she returns to the house from which we took her, her companions will laugh at her and smother her with ridicule. His pride, however, would not suffer him to interfere with their proceedings; much less could he bring himself to acknowledge that he had been in the wrong, and entreat Lady Trafford to remain, though he was well aware that her life might be endangered if she travelled by night. Then suddenly the curtain would fall. “Why should women be dependent on men?” she asked; and the question was at once converted into a system of variations upon the theme of “Why are things as they are?”—“Why are human beings viviparous?”—“Why are people hungry thrice a day?”—“Why does one faint at danger?” She stood for a time looking at the dry limbs and still human face of that desiccated unwrapped mummy from the very beginnings of social life. A hundred pounds to the man who takes him.
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