A cool gray light illuminated small portions of the stone floor. Like a river swollen by many currents, it gathered force from the various avenues that poured their streams into it. She was never able to trace the changes her attitude had undergone, from the time when she believed herself to be the pampered Queen of Fortune, the crown of a good man’s love (and secretly, but nobly, worshipping some one else), to the time when she realized she was in fact just a mannequin for her lover’s imagination, and that he cared no more for the realities of her being, for the things she felt and desired, for the passions and dreams that might move her, than a child cares for the sawdust in its doll. ’ ‘So that you may interest yourself in my affairs even more?’ ‘Then I will go with you,’ he offered. Every word you utter puzzles me. O'Higgins was to keep track of you until I believed you had had enough punishment. "Will that do?" he added, returning it. "You have said," pursued the widow, "that she, who has once erred, is irreclaimable. I shall be delighted to rescue you. The person, shortly afterwards ushered into the room, seemed by the imperfect light,—for the evening was advancing, and the chamber darkened by heavy drapery,—to be a middle-sized middle-aged man, of rather vulgar appearance, but with a very shrewd aspect. You would be alarmed of how sulphurous it is, how sickeningly sweet. He broke his arms in two places and several bones in his right hand. He was so seldom wrong. I’ve got to have you, and by God I will.
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