She had come across the
wicked South Seas which were still infested with cannibals; she had seen
drunkenness and called men beachcombers; who was this moment as innocent as
a babe, and in the next uttered some bitter wisdom it had taken a thousand years
of philosophy to evolve. Arrived in England, she had sought out Gosse, to keep an eye on his activities
and thus keep one step ahead of him, meanwhile hoping that she might find
herself another means of proof at Remenham House. She
knew that the next time he caught her she would not be able to free herself. Ten years of military life had taught him caution,
but only strengthened a fearless zest for diving into any promising adventure
with unalloyed enjoyment. . She put her clothes back on,
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lipstick smeared all over her face. But these fears, like those he had recently experienced, speedily vanished, and
he prepared to return to the roof, congratulating himself that owing to the
opportune falling of the bricks, he had in all probability escaped serious injury. Michelle was sounding alarm bells
everywhere in Lucy’s brain, but Lucy felt the pull of a
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greater inertia, the urge to stay put so strong that to deny
it was to deny the existence of gravity. Her sister’s
words were true.
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