She read on and on, now thrilled by the swiftly moving drama, now enraptured by the tender passages of love. He could neither stifle nor deaden that. What would happen when confronted by the actual? He was young; she was also young and physically beautiful—his lawful wife. And as a natural consequence, they don’t do so well, and they don’t get on—and so the world doesn’t pay them. “I think, perhaps if you will excuse me, that we will defer the luncheon. Give me your name, girl!’ ‘Again?’ Mademoiselle rolled her eyes. Taken altogether, his physiognomy resembled one of those vagabond heads which Murillo delighted to paint, and for which Guzman d'Alfarache, Lazarillo de Tormes, or Estevanillo Gonzalez might have sat:—faces that almost make one in love with roguery, they seem so full of vivacity and enjoyment. Of you, I mean. That was the wonder of these stories; one lived in them. She would lure him, as he was an easily tempted child predator who could even more easily be turned into prey. "Tell Mr. I’ve got to have you, and by God I will. He would get her to come to tea with him, usually in a pleasant tea-room over a fruit-shop in Tottenham Court Road, and he would discuss his own point of view and hint at a thousand devotions were she but to command him. It was better even than the hymn-singing.
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