Loving Julia
“he continued, lighting one of his everlasting cigars and leaning back in his chair to stare at her over its curling smoke. “Of course you are not going to marry Carlyle. If you think I’m enough of a flat to swallow that faradiddle—”“I tell you, he asked me to marry him, and I said I would. He is coming to see you tomorrow to ask your permission, which I assured him was a mere formality, and to talk over settlements and whatever it is that gentlemen talk over at such a time.”Julia took pleasure ...in investing the words with as much icy dignity as possible. Doing so required considerable restraint on her part. What she really wanted to do was scream at Sebastian, slap his maddeningly handsome face and rend his cheeks with her nails. She could still see him kissing that overblown trollop!But, of course, he had no idea that she had witnessed that disgusting little scene, and she certainly wasn’t going to enlighten him. With his monstrous conceit he might very well assume her engagement was motivated by jealousy.“You are asking me to believe that Carlyle sincerely wishes to marry you?MoreLess
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