Wood had the advantage of her husband in point of years, being on the sunny side of forty,—a period pronounced by competent judges to be the most fascinating, and, at the same time, most critical epoch of woman's existence,—whereas, he was on the shady side of fifty,—a term of life not generally conceived to have any special recommendation in female eyes. She had lost it. Lucy marveled at the billiards table and the sauna. He raised her to a sitting position. Her aunt arrived about halfpast ten, in black and with an unusually thick spotted veil. But though he made Blueskin and Kettleby his chief marks, he missed both. ‘Oh, I do love a flatterer. A few random students gawked at them in the hall. Manning, abruptly. But his role was altered, and he was now playing the bridegroom in this remarkable drama. The chief of these was a figure of Liberty, with a cat at her feet, in allusion to the supposed origin of the fortunes of its former founder, Sir Richard Whittington. " Emptiness; that was the doctor's initial sensation: his vitals had been whisked out of him and the earth from under his feet. Doesn’t matter a bit to me. Prudence reminded him that he was a county magistrate, and parliamentary candidate for a somewhat difficult borough, where his principal supporters were dissenters of strict principles who took a zealous interest in his moral character. And yet, as she rose slowly to her feet and stood looking at him with outstretched hands, a strange mixture of expressions shining in her wonderful eyes, he realized in some measure the strength of her determination, felt the utter impotence of anything which he could say to her.
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