Out In The World A Novel - 1864 Author:T. S. Arthur Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. HEY were silent by the way — he, from a brooding, questioning, bound state of feeling; she, partly from the intrusion of his unhappy condition of... more » mind, and partly, because she knew that to speak of her pleasant anticipations would meet with no cheerful response. Mrs. Woodbine's elegant suite of drawing-rooms, from the last of which opened her choicely stocked conservatory, were almost filled with guests when Carl Jansen and his wife arrived. They had entered, Madeline leaning on her husband's arm; been received by Mr. and Mrs. Wood- Jbine; and were moving down the room, amid richly attired women and their attendants, when Mr. Guytou presented himself with a face all smiles and courtesy, and said, with the assured familiarity of a favored friend — " Ah, Mrs. Jansen ! I've been looking for you! Good evening, Mr. Jansen! Let me take the care of your lady off of your hands." And before Jansen had time to think, Madeline's hand had been withdrawn from his arm, and she was moving away, leaning on the arm of the very man whom of all men living, he at that time most detested. What was to be done ? Anything, or nothing? For once in his life, there were red stains of passion in his cheeks. He knew it by their burning glow; and, in fear lest he should betray the almost maddening strife of feeling that seemed as if it would bear him beyond self-control, he moved out of the circle of observation as far as possible. But, he did not lose sight of his wife. How perfectly at home she was with Mr. Guyton! How familiarly did she lean towards him, looking up into his face, and answering him with sunny smiles and bright laughing eyes! He was an attractive man; taller in stature than Mr. Jansen, and altogether of a more imposing exterior. His manners were polished — his tastes ...« less