Many knew Diane’s disdain for the Beck family as well, “who would take in any stray that arrived mewling at their doorstep. 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. “No. "I cannot—will not suffer you to remain here. She had delicate oval features, light, laughing blue eyes, a pretty nez retroussé, (why have we not the term, since we have the best specimens of the feature?) teeth of pearly whiteness, and a brilliant complexion, set off by rich auburn hair, a very white neck and shoulders,—the latter, perhaps, a trifle too much exposed. So, very carefully, he raised her in his arms and carried her to her bed. ‘And so you sneak back,’ she threw at him, ‘like the jackal that you are. ‘Read that,’ and threw the telegram at me, so that it went into the tureen. Here and there, patches of flesh adhered to the bones, and the dank dripping hair hanging about what had once been the face, gave it a ghastly appearance. ’ ‘Never mind the comtesse,’ adjured Prudence.
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