She remained standing
stiffly, unable even to move. What could I do at home? The other’s a
crumple-up—just surrender. A wide terrace then led to large iron gates,' over which were
placed the two celebrated figures of Raving and Melancholy Madness, executed
by the elder Cibber, and commemorated by Pope in the Dunciad, in the wellknown lines:—
"Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne,
And laughs to think Monroe would take her down,
Where, o'er the gates, by his famed father's hand,
Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand. “Miserable bounder,” he murmured. "There's a
guinea to drink our health," she added, slipping a piece of money into his hand. "
"Ja—ja," returned the Hollander. But the
restraint exercised by her instinctive delicacy was very great; over and above
coarse or sexual matters it covered religion and politics and any mention of
money matters or crime, and Ann Veronica found herself wondering whether
these exclusions represented, after all, anything more than suppressions. And not only did these tentacular generalizations
gather all the facts of natural history and comparative anatomy together, but they
seemed always stretching out further and further into a world of interests that lay
altogether outside their legitimate bounds.
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