” Chapter XXV THE STEEL EDGE OF THE TRUTH The manservant, with his plain black clothes and black tie, had entered the room with a deferential little gesture. "A little suffering will do him good. He turned the water off and handed her a towel. The London backgrounds, in Bloomsbury and Marylebone, against which these people went to and fro, took on, by reason of their gray facades, their implacably respectable windows and window-blinds, their reiterated unmeaning iron railings, a stronger and stronger suggestion of the flavor of her father at his most obdurate phase, and of all that she felt herself fighting against. She battled with a deadly faintness, and she tottered rather than walked back to her seat. Michelle was in sight, Lucy could hear her voice, high in the crowd, and saw her blond head bobbing among a sea of faces. She was almost tempted to tell him, if only to see the cracks of surprise and incredulity break the immobility of his yellow countenance. His hunger satisfied, his spirits began to revive, and with this change of mood all his natural audacity returned. It was not a cambric curtain Ruth had drawn across that part of her life: it was of iron. Most of the horses were dead, all but three stallions and two mares left among what was once a thriving stable. Mike answered the door while still toweling his hands dry. "Poor fellow! I'm glad he has escaped. They were in many respects so right; she clung to that, and shirked more and more the paradoxical conviction that they were also somehow, and even in direct relation to that rightness, absurd. The farmer was a widow who was slightly famous around town for his prize cows and slightly more famous for his good looks. The subject matter was generally worthless, but the handling was well done.
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