Mrs. Bob: A Novel — page 222: what you’re looking at

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214 ADVENTURES OF ONE NIGHT. could let a joke large or sinall pass him by unnoticed. ‘COf course Craig supposed his adventures were at an end, although he began to believe he was fated to be confronted by the whole city in detachments. ‘This time he manages to leave the flat, and 1s descending the stairs, when a door that has been ajar suddenly opened and before he can say Jack Robin- son a hand catches him by the arm, a woman’s hand, too, and he is unceremoniously drawn into a room.”.’ ‘‘Oh! Bob,”’ cries his wife, blushing like a rose. ‘“Well, you see, Craig is as strong as an athlete, but he is also something of an Adonis, and even Samson was powerless in the hands of his Delilah, you remember. “Craig has in that one glimpse seen that the woman is beautiful in face and charming in figure; naturally he is not capable of making the desperate resistance that would have followed had she been ugly. Bob looks around, Gypsy pouts and frowns, the Senator nods in a comprehensive way, while Joe says, frankly: “Certainly not—human nature all around. Can’t help it, you know. ‘There is planted in our heart a love for the beautiful and a dislike for what is ugly,” and he looks in a beaming way at Gypsy—a look that makes her feel satisfied with his explanation. — ‘When Craig described this enchantress to me I knew another one of the characters in our little drama had entered by R. C., which means right centre, and advanced upon the stage, as she has on many a mimic one, for he pictured her as plain as day, the vengeful actress,. Josephine Armitage.”’ Gomichooksscom