Belonging A Novel Author:Olive Wadsley General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1920 Original Publisher: Dodd, Mead Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can sele... more »ct from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Her hair had the shine and depth which old polished wood has, a wine-like tint with flecks of gold in it, and Lucan felt decisively sure, with his knowledge of femininity, that she afforded herself an excellent maid to dress it! Her lips, he noted, were untouched, although it was the fashion in Paris just then to use scarlet salve. Professionally, personally, he admired her, perhaps he took praise to himself that he had not wished to make love to her! At any rate, he found her charming, an individual, and he certainly wished to hear her story, as every man with any glint of curiosity, or naturalness, in his composition does wish to receive a beautiful woman's confidence! He added to his former remark a quite touching tribute of courtesy for him. " I am gratified that you should wish to tell me." " I do, to explain things. Of course to begin with, you know that I am English! I have to tell you this, because -- to you -- as a Frenchman, as a mental analyst, it will be helpful. Alors, we begin with me, English, at nineteen, in that world which believes in living to-day because you may not be able to borrow enough to do so to-morrow! I didn't marry Coti for his money though oddly enough; if I had done, I could leave him now, take a lover, live any life I choose, for I should consider, you see, that I had fulfilled my bond, played the game by him. And you wouldn't think either, would you, you who knew him in his glory, that Coti had married me from chivalry? It isn't exactly the virtue, is it, which one would associate with his atrocious, always too yellow gloves, his jol...« less