Profoundly. 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. "I'm prudence personified. ’
Trodger frowned, and chewed his lip. Something he saw there made him
feel for a moment ashamed. “David Courtlaw!” she repeated. There was no one to be seen. ’
Trodger eyed her with suspicion. Down on me
luck, I was, and they took me in. Pah! Damned Frenchified—’
‘If you say again,’ threatened Melusine, moving to meet him like a jungle cat
poised for the kill, ‘this scorn of a thing French, monsieur le baron, I shall be
compelled to give you this apoplexy of which she speaks, madame. And when she took and married that Mr Charvill, we didn’t think to
see her at Remenham House no more. ”
She brought her knees up to her chest, and rocked
back and forth like a small child. And at last Ann Veronica and Miss Miniver came down the dark staircase and
out into the foggy spaces of the London squares, and crossed Russell Square,
Woburn Square, Gordon Square, making an oblique route to Ann Veronica’s
lodging.
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