“All right?” asked the man with the light eyelashes, suddenly appearing in the
doorway. ”
Ann Veronica could have wept with vexation. Parbleu, but what grandfathers I have!’
It was stalemate, Gerald thought, irrepressible amusement leaping into his
chest. . She occupied a small sofa, a little
apart, a ruddy-complexioned gentleman some years her senior beside her, and
glanced about with an air of considerable unease. ‘How happy for you that Valade came to take you away from France,’ he said
encouragingly, adding with one of those intimate looks, ‘Happy for me, too. 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. But she had not reckoned with the etiquette
of Canongate.
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