Soon finding himself unable, however, try as hard as he might, to be sure
of anything, he became weary of the effort, and sank back into the old,
self-satisfied, blind sleep.
CHAPTER IX
Out of this quiescence, however, a pang from the past one morning suddenly
waked him, and almost without consciousness of a volition, he found himself
at the soutar's door. Maggie opened it with the baby in her arms, with whom
she had just been having a game. Her face was in a glow, her hair tossed
about, and her dark eyes flashing with excitement. To Blatherwick, without
any great natural interest in life, and in the net of a haunting trouble
which caused him no immediate apprehension, the young girl, of so little
account in the world, and so far below him as he thought, affected him as
beautiful; and, indeed, she was far more beautiful than he was able to
appreciate. It must be remembered too, that it was not long since he had
been refused by another; and at such a time a man is readier to fall in
love afresh.
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