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The walls appeared to rock; bulging shadows reached out; the candle flames
became mocking eyes; and the blood drummed thunderously in Spurlock's ears. Besides, it was not the lodgekeeper’s business to know
that “other matters” included a reluctance on Gerald’s part to allow his little
company to conduct the search without him, and he’d had an engagement this
morning. An electric light flashed out from the wall. She became more and more alive, not
so much to a system of ideas as to a big diffused impulse toward change, to a
great discontent with and criticism of life as it is lived, to a clamorous confusion
of ideas for reconstruction—reconstruction of the methods of business, of
economic development, of the rules of property, of the status of children, of the
clothing and feeding and teaching of every one; she developed a quite
exaggerated consciousness of a multitude of people going about the swarming
spaces of London with their minds full, their talk and gestures full, their very
clothing charged with the suggestion of the urgency of this pervasive project of
alteration. Annabel set her teeth hard, and turned fiercely towards Anna. Horrors abounded in every passageway as each turn
could bring a vision of a poor woman running from her
screaming plague-infested son or a bloated corpse of a
rich man whose mouth lolled open, showing gaps where
someone had pried out a few golden teeth. “What do you want to go out here for, Lucy?” He
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asked. It was red and chapped. He
had gained admission somehow, and he too was waiting for Anna. Her
figure was perfect,—tall, graceful, rounded,—and, then, she had deep liquid blue
eyes, that rivalled the stars in lustre.
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