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need to equivocate now, he could afford to be perfectly frank with himself, and Adrian had to confess! what he had always refused to admit during his life. that his marriage had been dismal failure as far as he was concern- ed, one of the many failures in his life, not the biggest. perhaps, butį one of them.
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He had never contemplated mar- riage with Rosaliad until. Diane had turned him down, and then, he had married her out of pique. This he confessed freely although during the whole of his married life be had, with in- credible obstinacy, refused to en- tertain the idea.
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It was Diane he had really loved. always. She was the only one who had ever understood or sympathised with him. So eminently intellectual herself, so superbly cultured, so divinely beautiful, to him she had always appeared elusive and ethereal, and she had married a professional boxer. Life was like that had met the boxer once, and found him astonishingly human and even Likeable, but the thought of his hure, brute body in contact with Diaze's had left him nauseated, and, although they had parted on quite good terms, he had after wards always avoided the man.
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Rosalind was as utterly unlike Diane ** could possibly imagined. It was true that she, too, was beautiful if you forgot Diane, but hers was the sort of beauty that appeals to the grosser emotions, and she herself was 30 distressingly sensuous in her view of life, calmly admitting apathy as far as art and culture were cou-į cerned.
It was also undeniable that shel was disgustingly rich, and that her wealth had relieved Adrian from the necessity of earning a living. leaving him free to indulge his undoubted literary talents. Genius, after all, cannot flourish in the face of pecuniary embar- rassments, and the trouble
volved in earning money is out of all proportion to its importance in life-at least, so:Adrian thought. and be knew that be should be grateful to Rosalind. And he was. He was also grateful to her for never referring to the fact that he was dependent upon her, but, at the same time, he had always found her a perpetual source of exasperation.
BY GOLLY- FEEL GREAT
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I NEVER FELT
BETTER IN ME LIFE-
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She was the sort of person, who asks you if you have been to the an Louvre in the same tone of voice that one usually employs when in- quiring of a friend if he has had his tonsils removed. Her vola- tility left you breathless. She seemed to have an inherent ob- jection to remaining in the same place for any definite space of time. and fitted from one Euro- pean capital to another with the facility of a butterfly.
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Whether she travelled with view to broadening her mind is a matter of conjecture, but she seem ed to believe that knowing mata- dors in Madrid. Brownshirts in Berlin and Anarchists in Prague definitely added to her own-at-
tractiveness and she would tell you this quite unashamedly. She was also supremely confident that she spoke most European languages fluently.
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Adrian had once told her: "My| dear, you are the only person know who can speak Polish with a Spanish accent." But it took more than that to discourage Rosalind; she allowed nothing "to discourage her. Indeed. if you did not find her effervescence as objectionable as Adrian did her company was an excellent tonic. And, in her way, she was quite a good soft
Adrian- remembered. for in- stance, with feelings of gratitude, how when he had been struggling with one of the most perverse »of his novels and wanted most des perately to be alone, she had sug- gested her going over to New York and spending a few months there with a young Harlem quaintance of hers who earned a fabulous sum playing a saxophone in a negro orchestra. And, as zhej had persisted in her refusal to drag Adrian away from his work, she had gone alone. That had been very considerate of her.
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He regretted that she had never KŁOWD-RUY«Teal interest in his
but he realised that t have been asking too much.
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