Belcher, with trembling lips and a forced laugh.
"No! Do you have trances?"
"Trances? Yes; and visions of the most stunning character. Talbot has
seen me in two or three of them."
"Are they dangerous?"
"Not at all. The General's visions are always of a celestial
character,--warranted not to injure the most delicate constitution! I
feel one of them coming on now. Don't disturb me."
"Shall I fan you?"
"Do, please!"
The General closed his eyes. He had never before betrayed such
excitement in her presence, and had never before appeared so dangerous.
While she determined that this should be her last exposure to his
approaches, she maintained her brave and unsuspecting demeanor, and
playfully waved her fan toward him.
"I behold," said the General, "a business man of great ability and great
wealth, who discovers too late that his wife is unequally yoked with an
unbeliever. Love abides not in his home, and his heart is afloat on the
fierce, rolling sea. He leaves his abode in the country, and seeks in
the tumultuous life of the metropolis to drown his disappointments. He
there discovers a beautiful woman, cast in Nature's finest mould, and
finds himself, for the first time, matched.
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