The Two Standards

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The Two Standards
William Francis Barry
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I wouldn't I wouldn't/ he reiterated with a sudden outburst of passion and a flushed counten- ance, ' I wouldn't hurt a hair of your head. What is Harland to you ? Less than that, ' and he puffed away the blue smoke from his lips.
Could she but have told that saving lie ! Casuists, 174 THE TWO STANDARDS [BOOK n what say you ? But she was of a truthful nature, and herein lay the secret even of her supreme ability as an artist ; she saw things too clearly to render them out of proportion. She mus
...t be candid in her own mind and delusion absent there, it was impossible to smirk and smile and assume either a virtue or a vice that in herself she could not discover. Gladly would she have felt a passion such as Charlie insisted upon for Mr Harland. Why, then, did it not come at her call ? Now or never was the time of love with her ; would the roses decline to bloom ? Under this radiant sky of the south, in marble loggias, with orange trees scenting the cloistered gardens, the grave and beautiful statues gazing upon her as she passed, a world of colour ravish- ing her sight, and the air soft and balmy, ought she not to be falling in love for mere love's sake, fixing her dreams and turning them to delightful earnest, in the man who was the merchant of these pleasures always attentive, kind, amusing, the best of everyday com- panions, and certainly devoted ?

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