She would never look squarely at these dream forms that mocked the social order in which she lived, never admit she listened to the soft whisperings in her ear. Without a single ornament about her neck, or hair, wearing the plainest of black gowns, out of which her shoulders shone gleaming white, she was easily the most noticeable and the most distinguished-looking woman in the room. The party resolved itself for Ann Veronica into a game in which she manoeuvred unostentatiously and finally unsuccessfully to avoid talking alone with this gentleman. A man's laced hat,—whether adopted from the caprice of the moment, or habitually worn, we are unable to state,—cocked knowingly on her head, harmonized with her masculine appearance. The subterranean level of the Diedermayer house was fully bedecked with every luxury known to mankind. Brendon told him the name of a distant restaurant and sprang in by her side. He wrote poems to her beauty that he recited from a seemingly infinite memory. “You are Sir John Ferringhall,” she repeated. Nothing could exceed the dismay of these personages when they learnt why they had been summoned. “I beg your pardon,” he said, “but you appear to be a fellow countrywoman of mine, and in some distress. 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.
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