Ann Veronica had a number of fragmentary impressions of Alice strangely transfigured in bridal raiment. ’ Gerald was staring at her, an arrested expression on his face. Supposing she saw the young man at dinner that night, emptying his bottle? She could not go to him, sit down and draw the sordid pictures she had seen so often. A great bowl of scarlet carnations gleamed from a dark corner, set against the background of a deep brown wall. She began to look for beauty and discover it in unexpected aspects and places. Amid this tumult, several men armed with tremendous bludgeons, with their faces besmeared with grease and soot, and otherwise disguised, were observed to be urging the populace to attempt a rescue. In a moment he was beside her. She ignored his question. He too was flushed and ruffled; one side of his collar had slipped from its stud and he held a hand to the corner of his jaw. Amidst it all, however, there were several light-hearted and laughing groups walking from cell to cell to whom all this misery appeared matter of amusement. ‘Mademoiselle,’ he had greeted her, entering the little private parlour where, Martha being at prayer in their room, she sat alone, reading over and over the letter Mother Abbess had given her and revolving plans in her head.
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