”
Brendon hesitated for a moment. . ’
‘I am a very English man,’ Gerald said. Their
future would be glorious; he saw it in their eyes; he saw it in the beauty of their
young heads. There are way-stations—even
terminals. "An audience might have frightened the
birds. It had been brighter
than the rest, for dawn light had come in through high unshuttered casements
above the bookshelves. She mentioned, with familiar respect, Christ and Buddha and
Shelley and Nietzsche and Plato. Who is the beautiful intruder? And why does she
disguise herself as a nun? Why is she involved in an enterprise both foolhardy
and dangerous? The girl’s accent suggests an émigré but Mademoiselle insists
she is English. He was a civil servant of some
standing, and after a previous conversation upon aesthetics of a sententious,
nebulous, and sympathetic character, he had sent her a small volume, which he
described as the fruits of his leisure and which was as a matter of fact rather
carefully finished verse. Oh, God!”
Rhea sniffed the air through two gaping nostrils that
had eroded through her onion skin flesh. The young male, as she had actually
seen him, had been of the sailor type, hard-bitten, primordial, ruthless. "It happened, gentlemen," pursued the Master, "on a particular occasion, about
the time I've mentioned, that the Archduke of Alsatia, the Sovereign of the
Savoy, and the Satrap of Salisbury Court, met by accident at the Cross Shovels. The only occasional presence other than a skeleton
crew of servants was Sebastianus, who occasionally joined
Gianfrancesco in the hunt for stag, rabbit, or quail, and
then went away for another fortnight.
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