What was it in her heart or mind or soul that went out to this man? Music—was that it? Was he powerless to stir her without the gift? But hadn't he fascinated her by his talk, gentle and winning? Ah, but that had been after he had played for her. Several people in the crowd seemed to be fighting. The fact itself is regrettable enough—regrettable, I fear, is quite an inadequate word. I’m glad I did. He was also aware that all his arguments would shatter themselves against her resolutions. She needed to protect the baby. As he balanced the photograph, a humorous twinkle came into his eyes. His features were regular, and finely-formed; his complexion bright and blooming,—a little shaded, however, by travel and exposure to the sun; and, with a praiseworthy contempt for the universal and preposterous fashion then prevailing, of substituting a peruke for the natural covering of the head, he allowed his own dark-brown hair to fall over his shoulders in ringlets as luxuriant as those that distinguished the court gallant in Charles the Second's days—a fashion, which we do not despair of seeing revived in our own days. He was the beachcomber, or the old sailor with the black pearl (Ruth's tales), or the wastrel musician McClintock had described to him. To a woman she might have confided; but to this man, kindly as he was, it was unthinkable.
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