Then began expostulations, preluded by a telegram and headed by her aunt. They trudged and talked, and Manning struggled, as he said, to “get the hang of it all. If only one might open the shutters and let in the light. 'Whoso giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord;' that's my comfort. It was just a chance that we in particular hit against each other—nothing predestined about it. What would happen to her? Would her soul be shaken, twisted, hypnotized?—as it had been those other times? Music—that took out of her the sense of reality, whirled her into the clouds, that gave to her will the directless energy of a chip of wood on stormy waters. Gazing into each other's eyes with new-found rapture, neither observed the sudden appearance in the doorway of an elderly woman in travel-stained linen. Sheppard. “I wonder what he takes me for?” When presently she got down from the stile a certain note of internal conflict, a touch of doubt, had gone from her warm-tinted face. Wood, in his Sunday habiliments and Sunday buckle. I hope that James will not be long with that whisky and Apollinaris. Was it that the struggle of things to survive produced as a sort of necessary byproduct these intense preferences and appreciations, or was it that some mystical outer thing, some great force, drove life beautyward, even in spite of expediency, regardless of survival value and all the manifest discretions of life? She went to Capes with that riddle and put it to him very carefully and clearly, and he talked well—he always talked at some length when she took a difficulty to him—and sent her to a various literature upon the markings of butterflies, the incomprehensible elaboration and splendor of birds of Paradise and hummingbirds’ plumes, the patterning of tigers, and a leopard’s spots. In the midst of this light stood a young woman.
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