Her father’s ideas of expostulation were a little harsh and forcible, and over the claret-colored table-cloth and under the gas chandelier, with his hat and umbrella between them like the mace in Parliament, he and his daughter contrived to have a violent quarrel. “I can’t keep away from you. "My God! will you see your child strangled before your eyes, and not so much as scream for help?" said Wood, staring at the widow with a look of surprise and horror. He had reacted by laughing at her, informing her coolly that she was naïve in many things. Then all the embarrassments of the matter flashed in upon her. 98 < 13 > THE ISLAND CASTLE AT HERCULIS Life with Sebastian was often trying, yet he grew on her far more than Gianfrancesco ever had. The bed was hard beyond any experience of hers, the bed-clothes coarse and insufficient, the cell at once cold and stuffy. Women are made like the potter’s vessels —either for worship or contumely, and are withal fragile vessels. ‘He can’t be Valade, that’s certain,’ mused Gerald, unheeding. He had studied alchemy and astronomy, was a capable painter, and even wrote music.
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