This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...so much from day to day and what the day brought forth that the vision of future years never seemed to occur to him. Now, it appeared, that everybody to whom he spoke pointed in one direction--the direction of a return to normal existence. Perpetua had become a problem. He had treated her as a child, and behold the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ...so much from day to day and what the day brought forth that the vision of future years never seemed to occur to him. Now, it appeared, that everybody to whom he spoke pointed in one direction--the direction of a return to normal existence. Perpetua had become a problem. He had treated her as a child, and behold the woman in her was budding, and the flower was his care. It had never really occurred to him that she would ever be other than a child. No clear picture of their lives together had presented v itself to him, but now that he saw she was going to be a beautiful woman the problem was more difficult. Marriage was, of course, the simplest way out of it. If he could bring himself to marry a mother for Perpetua, then all the burden would be thrown from his shoulders; but he loved the burden, and his shoulders were proud under it. During their stay in Milan they saw Pauline Drummond almost daily. She revealed herself as an odd, almost masculine woman, hard on the surface but tender and gentle underneath. "My dear Brian," she said, one day when they were alone, "I know exactly what you are thinking about--You are wondering if you oughtn't to marry me so that I can look after the child." He flushed deeply. "I admire you immensely," he said. "You needn't bother about it," she said, smiling. "I've not the least intention of becoming Perpetua's mother. I told you a lie the other day. I told you I ran away from a curate. So I did; but I married him first, and then ran away. That is why I shall never go back to England. That is why I am playing in these dreary cafes. An uncle of mine died six years ago and left me a little money, so I'm all right. Oh!" she exclaimed vehemently, "I degraded myself. Oh! the loa...
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