His Other Wife: A Novel — page 149: what you’re looking at

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THE PLOTTERS. I4I plished and captivating. man like Julian. Vernois, especially when genuine admiration for herself gave a keener edge to the subtle flatteries in which he expressed. his homage, Yet, despite, the sensuous attraction that-he exercised over her, there was an instinctive mistrust of him that was ever presentin.Faith’s..angelic soul,.and that caused her to shrink from his amorous eyes and honeyed phrases with a feeling of absolute dread. sessoslong as he avoided.all tender references: in his talk, the: girl, .was, unfeignedly, delighted with his attentions, which he knew. how. to invest with the thousand nameless graces that.can, be felt. but not described. .. His. dark, Oriental: beauty, of face and person must alone have had their effect upon the artistic sense, of the imaginative maiden, ‘who. colored all. things with the warm tones of her <poetic fancy, .and, in the unconscious admiration which he’often saw.in her candid eyes, Julian found stim- ulating nutriment for the new-born passion that was astir in: his heart. » Leda‘had only lens half the truth when she said Mr. Croft would: never consent to Julian’s marriage with. his ward’; but she purposely suppressed the fact that if it could be compassed zwithout his.consent or connivance, Mr. Croft would rejoice as much as herself to be relieved of the oner- .ous: charge of the young lady on honorable terms that would satisfy Faith’s mother. ‘In a. covert, way, Leda had left nothing Re to in- flame Faith’s fancy for the creole, and no breath of the GComicbooks: (E(0)