“It is Rhea’s infant. His back was no sooner turned, than she slipped this casket into
the box. But they were all pretty nearly of the
same length, and built somewhat after the model of a boat, having extremities as
sharp and pointed as the keel of a canoe. She was nearly too giddy still to answer him. Her mother had died when
she was thirteen, her two much older sisters had married off—one submissively,
one insubordinately; her two brothers had gone out into the world well ahead of
her, and so she had made what she could of her father. Say I’m out, away, anything!”
“I am sorry, sir,” the man answered, “but she had sent away her hansom before I
answered the bell. Then it
dawned. I don’t see
how they can be. 55
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THE MANOR, 1349
They moved to the country manor in the autumn of
1349, when plague was still raging through the city. ”
They loitered under trees, they sat on mossy banks they gossiped on friendly
benches, they came back to lunch at the “Star and Garter,” and talked their
afternoon away in the garden that looks out upon the crescent of the river. Not only that, but he carried himself erect—
the slight slouch which had bent his shoulders had altogether disappeared. The flat was apparently empty. He
would ask her to come to dinner with him in some little Italian or semiBohemian restaurant in the district toward Soho, or in one of the more stylish
and magnificent establishments about Piccadilly Circus, and for the most part
she did not care to refuse. She
guessed that he probably slept all of three hours a night at
most.
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