The book I in Which a Woman Tells the Truth About Herself was written by author Thomas Spees Carrington Here you can read free online of I in Which a Woman Tells the Truth About Herself book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is I in Which a Woman Tells the Truth About Herself a good or bad book?
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Certainly no sign or token of any sort whatsoever had reached me of his existence since that Thursday night. I wondered idly if he had discovered the Carlier gown and the or- naments where I had left them ; if he had taken them on his own arm and carried them up that steep iron stair and laid them in the still beauty of that shameful room. I could see him enter it. The hyacinths and roses would be drooping. The lustrous trailing garment would again be re- flected in the mirror, but its folds wo...uld hang [ 229 ] CHAP. XIX limp and lifeless. The panel thus made would not have the artistic effect for which he had so carefully striven, when a warm, living woman, passion pale, her firm, rounded limbs caressed by its folds, should have been reflected there! How well I discerned all that had been in his refined epicurean fancy. He had prepared a po- tent spell for flesh and sense ; he had looked to be drunk with beauty, exhilarated with conquest and this was the end spurning and mockery and hard hate : an empty room, an empty gown.
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