‘Well, sir, if I’ve to choose betwixt him and you, I’ll take you, no question. She had asked about that already, and her father had replied, evasively: “We’ll have to see about that, little Vee; we’ll have to see about that. She posed herself before her mirror and surveyed herself with gravely thoughtful, gravely critical, and yet admiring eyes. Great stone staircases leading no one knew whither, and long gloomy passages, impressed the occasional visitor with the idea that he was traversing a building of vast extent; and, though this was not the case in reality, the deception was so cleverly contrived that it seldom failed of producing the intended effect. Uttering a faint scream, she sank backwards, and would have fallen, if it had not been for the interposition of Blueskin, who, at that moment, staggered into the room with a candle in one hand, and the bottle in the other. And I have seen work by his pupils myself that struck me as being—well, next door to shameful. He had set out to win her, and she had let him start. “Come in here a moment, will you, Blanche,” he said. It came to Spurlock suddenly that if something did not react in his favour inside of five minutes, he was done. “Good-bye,” he said earnestly. But for the next few days he avoided Cheveney like the plague. And Blueskin, who, for a moment, had looked round distrustfully, concluding it was a feint, now laughed louder than ever. “A Socialist of the order of John Ruskin. “But why,” he said in the gasping voice of one subduing an agony, and looked at her from under a pain-wrinkled brow, “why did you not tell me this before?” “I didn’t know—I thought I might be able to control myself.
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