The villain has enjoyed his security too long. Grace, confidence, the power of movement even, seemed gone from her. Its dreariness, like the filthiness of the police cell, was a discovery for her. She had pushed aside her azure veil, taken off her snow-glasses, and sat smiling under her hand at the shining glories—the lit cornices, the blue shadows, the softly rounded, enormous snow masses, the deep places full of quivering luminosity—of the Taschhorn and Dom. "We're forgetting," he said. Melusine, starved of colour for years, revelled in it. Except for the dull eyes and the extreme pallor of his face, there was nothing else to indicate that he was deep in liquor. She felt sickeningly empty. "What's the particular dope?" "If I told you, you would laugh," answered Ah Cum, gravely. 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. Bold women certainly existed in the Middle Ages--Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is evidence of this--but meek women were probably the norm, good Christian family ladies who wanted nothing more than to serve God and have children. She felt his whole mind sounding in ecstasy. . ‘I am extremely displeased.
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