” “And he sat at my table,” Annabel said bitterly, “and yet he did not know me. " The Wastrel advanced. But always this new phase in life which civilization called convention threw up barrier after barrier. Only I wish—I wish to-day I was a thousand times, ten thousand times more beautiful. It is attested, you will observe, by the Reverend Mr. Tell me how are you amusing yourself?” Anna laughed. Coldly she spoke, in a distinctly accented voice. 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. “No,” she answered, reluctantly. To-night all London believes that he was your husband. She reflected upon that with a thrill of terror that was also, somehow, in some faint remote way, gleeful. She could hear him from the lower floor as he locked the gates and drew up the wooden part of the bridge. I didn’t get it, why she put on the innocent act. She was my first love. His shirt was unfastened, his vest unbuttoned, his hose ungartered; his feet were stuck into a pair of pantoufles, his arms into a greasy flannel dressing-gown, his head into a thrum-cap, the cap into a tie-periwig, and the wig into a gold-edged hat.
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