His Other Wife: A Novel — page 231: what you’re looking at

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GRAFF CONWAY, 223 Missing Vernois’ dark face and brooding eyes from the company seemed to. change the whole aspect of things to Faith Hilary; for, without being able to understand just why it was so, she had felt a natural aversion to the man ever since the night he had revealed his feeling for her so plainly. She had never afterward met the fervid glow of his glance without a burning sense of indignation, remember- ing that he had represented her as being his wife, and how he had selfishly urged his love upon her, She was almost gay this evening in her talk across the table with Graff Conway, and something like the old childish freedom crept into her manner under the pro- tecting influence of the old man’s presence. It must be kept in mind that all the circumstances of tha girl’s life had been so unexceptional, that her conduct cannot: be judged by the fixed rules of conventional propriety. - Apart from the native adaptability of her character, the utter absence of restraint in her early training had tended to develop an elasticity of temperament which may easily account for the rebound her spirits seemed to have made from the saddest dejection to this comparative mirth- fulness. A rosy brightness animated her smiling face, and the furtive eves of the young captain were fairly dazzled by the freshness of her beauty. He, too, seemed to have caught the infection of cheer- Eomicbooks: (E(@)