“But who could have lent you money?”
“I pawned my pearl necklace. ‘Your wife?’
‘My wife,’ he repeated, rising also, his smile mocking her. ‘And I am
delighted to see that you are ready to admit that the Charvills—or rather the
Valades—are indeed your affair. 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. "See her I will. I hope we may never find her again. And how comes his cloak on this knave's shoulders?"
"It is his cloak, of a surety," returned Rowland "Harkye, sirrah," continued he,
haughtily interrogating Wood; "where is the person from whom you received
this mantle?"
"Throttling a man isn't the way to make him answer questions," replied the
carpenter, doggedly.
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