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We’ll make short work of them. Anna jumped into a waiting hansom. After occupying himself thus for the best part of an hour, he thought Jack must
have given him the slip. 1. Capes? Well, think what it
must be to live in them—soul and mind and body! It’s fun for a man to jest at
our position. ”
“After all,” Sir John remarked complacently, “it is astonishing how easy it is for
people with brains and a little knowledge of the world to completely hide
themselves. "My lips would belie my heart were I to
refuse you. I would like you to believe that the decision
I have arrived at—to stay away—is wholly and entirely to save you pain. 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. Dim possibilities that she would not seem to look at even to herself
gesticulated in the twilight background of her mind. But go on. White, who had risen to greet
her, proceeded with a formal, and from Anna’s point of view, a wholly
unnecessary round of introductions. ”
She seated herself in a loose and easy attitude and surveyed the backs of the
Avenue houses; then her eyes wandered to where the new red-and-white villas
peeped among the trees. ToC
Mrs.
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