the calm gaze of those brilliant azure eyes; and she felt, as she had done once in her rhododendron shelter, as though she were some very worthless, rough, rude, untaught, and coarse little barbarian, who was, at best, but wordnetanger for a soldier's jest and a soldier's riot in the wild license of the barrack room or the campaigning tent. It was only the eyes of this woman, whom he loved, which ever had the power to awaken that , that of herself, that consciousness of something lost and irrevocable, which moved her now. Cigarette was proud with an intense of all her fiery liberty from every feminine trammel, of all her complete immunity from every and every fastidiousness of her . But, for once, within sight of that noble and haughty beauty, a poignant, cruel, wounding sense of utter inferiority, of utter debasement, possessed and weighed down her lawless and indomitable . Some vague, weary feeling that her youth was fair enough in the sight of men, but that her older years would be very dark, very terrible, came on her even in this hour of the supreme , the supreme of her life. Even her buoyant and cloudless nature did not escape that mortal doom which pursues and poisons every wordnetdesire in the very instant