He cocked an eyebrow. It was a moment of
breathless interest to all engaged in the attempt. It is queer, but men of education and good birth fall swiftest and
lowest. I wonder if I
should have locked you up if I’d been your father. It
had been a part of the vast domain of the servants in the house’s earlier
incarnation. There was something very
wrong. The cloth was removed, and
Wood, drawing the table as near the window as possible—for it was getting dusk
—put on his spectacles, and opened that sacred volume from which the best
consolation in affliction is derived, and left the lovers—for such they may now
be fairly termed—to their own conversation. 266
She peered up at him. ”
He stepped past her to the door and closed it. ’
‘Oh, don’t I? What do you have under all those petticoats, a holster?’
‘But yes, and they are empty. “That is as you will,” she said. Ann Veronica was much impressed by a mighty trying on and altering and
fussing about Alice’s “things”—Alice was being re-costumed from garret to
cellar, with a walking-dress and walking-boots to measure, and a bride’s costume
of the most ravishing description, and stockings and such like beyond the dreams
of avarice—and a constant and increasing dripping into the house of irrelevant
remarkable objects, such as—
Real lace bedspread;
Gilt travelling clock;
Ornamental pewter plaque;
Salad bowl (silver mounted) and servers;
Madgett’s “English Poets” (twelve volumes), bound purple morocco;
Etc. On searching the coat, he found, amongst other matters, a
mask, a key, and a pocket-book. She was very excited. They showered together.
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