Close behind him stood the tall gaunt figure of Marvel, with his large bony
hands, his scraggy neck, and ill-favoured countenance. She was working very steadily
at the Advanced Course in Comparative Anatomy, wonderfully relieved to have
her mind engaged upon one methodically developing theme in the place of the
discursive uncertainties of the previous two months, and doing her utmost to
keep right in the back of her mind and out of sight the facts, firstly, that she had
achieved this haven of satisfactory activity by incurring a debt to Ramage of
forty pounds, and, secondly, that her present position was necessarily temporary
and her outlook quite uncertain. ”
“Coffee! Bah!”
The newcomer picked her way across the floor with daintily uplifted skirts, and
subsided into a deck chair of stretched canvas. The life with
which he had endued these sheets of paper began to beckon imperiously. You must come and tell me
all about it, although I am not sure whether we shall forgive you for not having
written to any of us. Modern, indeed! She was going to be as primordial as chipped flint. Nothing, in short, was too extravagant
to be related of it; and Jonathan, who delighted in investing himself and his
residence with mystery, encouraged, and perhaps originated, these marvellous
tales. Ann Veronica, after a last
survey of the dinner appointments, followed him, rustling, came to his side by
the high brass fender, and touched two or three ornaments on the mantel above
the cheerful fireplace.
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