No, nothing so unlikely. But she was
intelligent and she was ardent; and there are not boundaries to the
distance one may go with that equipment. She was admirable and she
felt that she was effective. She had a consciousness of confidence
amounting almost to a feeling of being tuned up and now let go; to
a feeling of power, as of inspiration. And this strange animation
that she had, came, she knew, from the triumph over that man, from
the feeling, stated grimly, that she was giving him one.
It is much more important, all that, than, when it came, the great
reason of the great invitation that had brought Rosalie to take part
in it. The great reason already has been disclosed--Mr. Sturgiss,
bending across the tablecloth, they two left alone, "Well, look
here--to come to the point--the reason why I've got you up here
tonight--it's this: we want you--Field and Company, the Bank,--we
want you to come to us--we want you in Lombard Street."
She was beautiful to see in her proud happiness at that. Startled
and tremulous, she was; like some lovely fawn burst from thicket
and at breathless poise upon the crest of unsuspected pastures;
within her eyes the cloud of dreams passing like veils upon the
gleam of her first ecstasy; upon her face, shadowed as she sinks
somewhat back, the tide of colour (her rosy joy) flooding above
her sudden pallor; her lips slightly parted; her hand that had been
plucking at the cloth caught to her bosom where her heart had leapt.
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