She was never able to trace the changes her attitude had undergone, from the time when she believed herself to be the pampered Queen of Fortune, the crown of a good man’s love (and secretly, but nobly, worshipping some one else), to the time when she realized she was in fact just a mannequin for her lover’s imagination, and that he cared no more for the realities of her being, for the things she felt and desired, for the passions and dreams that might move her, than a child cares for the sawdust in its doll. “It is true,” he said, “that I was dining last night at a restaurant in the Boulevard des Italiennes, and it is true that my companion was a young lady whose name is Pellissier. ” Annabel shrugged her shoulders. She could not resist enduing persons she met with the noble attributes of the fictional characters. " "But why didn't you oppose him?" "I had to let him have his way, else he might not have returned safely. How little he knew about Ruth—the background from which she had sprung! He knew that her father was a missioner, that her mother was dead, that she had been born on this island, and that, at the time of his collapse, she had been on the way to an aunt in the States. ‘As I have said, it was a quarrel between the vicomte and Monsieur Charvill. Besides," he added cynically, "it is said that God watches over fools and drunken men.
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