I daresay you have the whole thing wrong, Gerald. The clerk at the Raffles Hotel had accorded her but scant interest. Were I a painter of subject pictures, I would exhaust all my skill in proportion and perspective and atmosphere upon the august seat of empire, I would present it gray and dignified and immense and respectable beyond any mere verbal description, and then, in vivid black and very small, I would put in those valiantly impertinent vans, squatting at the base of its altitudes and pouring out a swift, straggling rush of ominous little black objects, minute figures of determined women at war with the universe. It had evidently seen better days before being relegated to the ministrations of a hackney coachman, one who evidently served the less affluent inhabitants of London. He would always see the picture of the huge, raw-boned Dutchman, haranguing and thundering the word of God into the dull ears of South Sea Islanders, who, an hour later, would be carrying fruit penitently to their wooden images. " "Very true," chuckled Jackson; "very true. Sheppard. ’ ‘Well, I am glad he did not,’ intervened Lucilla, forestalling another withering comment from the captain. ‘Rather would I die than fall in with such a plan. And I don't want anything of yours destroyed, Hoddy. She would be healthy, too, and vigorous. Send you the shirt. ” “Annabel, are you mad? To England! You are joking, of course.
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