‘Why not a French flag?’
‘Because I don’t believe that fool Pottiswick could tell French from Arabic,
even if he heard it as he says he did—which I take leave to doubt. But over against the world Miss Miniver assembled a small but
energetic minority, the Children of Light—people she described as “being in the
van,” or “altogether in the van,” about whom Ann Veronica’s mind was disposed
to be more sceptical. This woman, contrary
to his custom, he answered. ’
‘It is well seen you are not Gérard,’ Melusine said, but thankful now that he
was not. These
girls wore hats at remarkable angles and bows to startle and kill; they liked to be
right on the spot every time and up to everything that was it from the very
beginning and they rendered their conception of Socialists and all reformers by
the words “positively frightening” and “weird. “Perhaps, as I’ve only just arrived,” she remarked, “I might be forgiven if I do
not change my skirt. Accordingly, when she arrived at the
Shovels, with which, as an old haunt in her bygone days of wretchedness she
was well acquainted, instead of entering the principal apartment, which she saw
at a glance was crowded with company of both sexes, she turned into a small
room on the left of the bar, and, as an excuse for so doing, called for something
to drink. I am a physician first, which
gives the man in me a secondary part.
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