Even Capes had been for her merely an excitant to passionate love—a
mere idol at whose feet one could enjoy imaginative wallowings. ’
‘Like your father,’ Gerald put in deliberately. Lucy kissed
him on the cheek. The girl
had told him distinctly that her name was Anna. She found herself talking to Capes in an undertone of
rational admission. “I am sure she will be very happy indeed with Doctor Ralph. 23
She had always considered herself a simple wool
maker’s daughter, but she began to realize that by
marrying Gianfrancesco she had unwittingly gained
entrance to a separate world. ToC
On the night of Friday, the 26th of November, 1703, and at the hour of eleven,
the door of a miserable habitation, situated in an obscure quarter of the Borough
of Southwark, known as the Old Mint, was opened; and a man, with a lantern in
his hand, appeared at the threshold. "Manuscripts! Why, this chap is a writer, or is
trying to be. The bliss had lasted one hundred and forty
years, far more than an entire mortal lifetime. “Have some more port wine, sir?”
“It’s a very sound wine,” said Mr. How she had fought her eagerness in the beginning, lest it reveal her ignorance
of the marvels of mankind! The terror and ecstasy of that night in Singapore—
the first city she had ever seen! There was still the impression that something
akin to a miracle had piloted her successfully from one ordeal to another. What an adventure! Of course, you'll bark your shins here
and there and hit your funnybone; but the newness of everything will be
something of a compensation. Perhaps she would have to charge this man and appear
in a police-court next day. 'T is better, with wine, to extinguish the light,
Than live always, in darkness, without it!
"How long may it be since that boy was found in the way Mrs.
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