This was automatically rather than thoughtfully done; habit. In addition to the various business men, solicitors, civil servants, and widow
ladies who lived in the Morningside Park Avenue, there was a certain family of
alien sympathies and artistic quality, the Widgetts, with which Ann Veronica had
become very friendly. ”
Anna shook her head. “The sooner you tell
me the better. ”
“Well”—her breath failed her for a moment. Then she looked up at Brendon. . He saw her, dripping with
rosy pearls, rise out of the lagoon in the dawn light: he saw her flashing to and
fro among the coco palms in the moonshine: he saw her breasting the hurricane,
her body as full of grace and beauty as the Winged Victory of the Louvre. All her tender lures, inherent and acquired, had shattered themselves futilely
against the reserve he had set between them. Oh, goodness! Bilking! Ann
Veronica, you’re a bilker!”
Pause. A thin mist lay on the river, giving the few craft moving about in it a ghostly
look. “You do look really
nice. "I've proofs to the contrary," replied Jonathan. But this plan
(probably from its danger) was instantly abandoned; not, however, before her
momentary hesitation had been taken advantage of by her pursuers, who,
redoubling their efforts at this juncture, materially lessened the distance between
them. She could even think of what had happened.
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