Against the sinister, the threatening, monstrous inhumanity of the limitless city, there was nothing now but this supreme, ugly fact of a pursuit— the pursuit of the undesired, persistent male. Irregularly, in a quite inglorious and unromantic way, you know, I am a vicious man. It was, in fact, a group of interests quite unlike any other group, peculiar and special, and one to be thoroughly ashamed of. She assumed with a kind of mesmeric force all the propositions that Ann Veronica wanted her to define. If she had any idea at all, it was something she dimly recalled from her books: something celestially beautiful, with a happy ending. She would end this sham with Manning. Gay," he added, turning to the poet. Hadn’t they settled that already? “I want you as a friend,” he persisted, almost as if he disputed something. Ben watched these manoeuvres with great interest, and strained every sinew in his frame to keep ahead of the other boats. Husband of mine, I think we have rather overrated the emotional capacity of those—those dears. I can’t but feel it’s an undesirable complication to drag in the Charvills at this point. She went on her way now no longer dreaming and appreciative, but disturbed and unwillingly observant behind her mask of serene contentment.
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