”
She smiled
artificially as she scanned the audience and located John. ” She
replied dryly. Manning?” said her aunt. 84
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A SECOND DATE WITH JOHN
DIEDERMAYER
“Ding dong. I came
in by the vestry, and we will go out that way again. It was an uproarious affair, for Rollo now knew that he had been
grieviously betrayed: they were trying to kill him in a new way. It was easy to recognize, the one
thing that had stayed the same over the years. The size and grandeur of the edifice, indeed, drew down the
ridicule of several of the wits of the age: by one of whom—the facetious Tom
Brown—it was said, "Bedlam is a pleasant place, and abounds with amusements;
—the first of which is the building, so stately a fabric for persons wholly
insensible of the beauty and use of it: the outside being a perfect mockery of the
inside, and admitting of two amusing queries,—Whether the persons that
ordered the building of it, or those that inhabit it, were the maddest? and,
whether the name and thing be not as disagreeable as harp and harrow. Had he been sick in the mind when he had done this damnable thing? It did not
seem possible, for he could recall clearly all he had said and done; there were no
blank spaces to give him one straw of excuse. ’
‘Yes, I know,’ Gerald put in with an irrepresssible chuckle. Look what you have brought
upon your pets. Sometimes I
tremble, Anna, to think how near I came to passing through life without a single
glimpse, a moment’s revelation of this greatest and most awful of mysteries, the
mystery of primaeval nature. She walked down the station approach, past the neat, obtrusive offices of the
coal merchant and the house agent, and so to the wicket-gate by the butcher’s
shop that led to the field path to her home.
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