His Other Wife: A Novel — page 40: what you’re looking at

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32 “THE DEAD LIVES.” He simply bowed, and passed out through the French window to the piazza. Leda watched till she heard his step nearing the gate at the end of the gravel walk; then she went out upon the paved veranda, and looked after his tall figure passing swiftly out of sight in the white radiance of a young moon. She said, aloud: ‘‘He is only the son of an emigrant tradesman, but I declare I’ve seen few noblemen with such an air of con- scious superiority. It is absolutely ridiculous how little regard he seems to have for my beauty and station! We must endeavor to alter that. He is well worth subjugating, and I find it insufferably dull at Lucerne.” CHAPTER III. ‘THE DEAD LIVES.’”’ Mrs. Morgan’s extreme illness for the space of three weeks furnished a sufficient pretext to delay the business transactions which had involved Gordon Warren’s fortunes with those of the occupants of Lucerne Villa. For very important reasons he kept his own counsel for the present, determined on the course he would pursue EComicbooks.com