In the same low, stern voice he
continued, "I see the secret of your artistic  now, Miss Ludolph,
but permit me to say that you have made your first and last success,
and there in that black stain, most appropriately black, is the result."

She looked as if she could have torn him to atoms.

"You have been false," he continued. "You have acted a lie before me
for weeks. You have deceived in that which is most sacred, and with
sacrilegious hands have trifled with that which every true man 
as holy."

She trembled beneath his stern, accusing words.  echoed them,
wordnetanger and courage were fast deserting her in the presence of the aroused
and more powerful  of her wronged lover. But she said, petulantly,
"Nonsense! You know well that half the ladies of the city would have
flirted with you from mere  and wordnetdesire of power; my motive was
infinitely beyond this."

Until now this had almost seemed sufficient reason to excuse her action,
but she distrusted it even to  as she saw the look of 
come out on his noble face.

"And is that your best plea for falsehood? A moment since I loved you
with a  that you will never receive again. But now I despise
you."

"