By George! I'd cure
them of the taste for man-hunting!"
I wonder what impelled me to tell Pasquale of the proposed
yachting cruise? We sat smoking by the open window, long after
Carlotta had been sent to bed, and looking at a full moon sailing
over the tops of the trees in the park; enveloped in that
sensuous atmosphere of a warm summer night which induces a
languor in the body and in the will. On such a night as this
young Lorenzo, if he happens to have Jessica by his side, makes a
confounded idiot of himself, to his life's undoing; and on such a
night as this a reserved philosopher commits the folly of
discussing his private affairs with a Sebastian Pasquale.
But if he is correct in his surmise, I am much beholden to the
relaxing influences of the night. I have been warned of perils
that encompass me: perils that would infest the base and
insidiously scale the sides of the most inaccessible tower that
man could build on the edge of the Regent's Park. A woman with a
Matrimonial Purpose would be quite capable of gaining access by
balloon to my turret window.
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