I'd have done the same thing, by Jove! First-class
solution...although it's a pretty hard wrench to give up your own country.
But when a man is too active to stagnate--there you are....I wish I had
known where to find him to-day, but he lives on his ranch and I've
only seen him once since. Lady Victoria took me to a ball night before
last--Good God! Was it only that?...and we were to have met again for lunch
to-day."
"It is very easy and picturesque to renounce when you possess just about
everything in life! If I attempted to renounce any of my privileges, for
instance. I should simply move down and out."
III
He turned his head and regarded her squarely for the first time. Heretofore
she had been simply a friend in need, a jolly good sport, incidentally a
female. If she had been beautiful he should have noted that fact at once,
for he could not imagine the circumstances in which beauty would not exert
an immediate and powerful influence, however transitory.
Miss Dwight was not beautiful, but he concluded during that frank stare
that her face was interesting; disturbingly so, although he was unable at
the moment to find the reason. It was possible that in favorable conditions
she would be handsome.
She had a mass of dark brown hair that seemed to sink heavily over her low
forehead until it almost met the heavy black eyebrows. She had removed her
hat and the thick loose coils made her look topheavy; for the face, if wide
across the high cheek-bones and sharply accentuated with a salient jaw, was
not large.
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