" So saying, he raised a whistle to his lips, and
blew a loud call; and, as this was unanswered, another still louder. ’
‘What young lady?’ demanded a voice from the back of the hall. For the
young, immortality must seem promising, even
wonderful! The grass is always greener on the other
side. They crossed the Park to the
westward, and then turned back and walked round the circle about the Royal
Botanical Gardens and then southwardly toward Waterloo. His body went
limp, and as he withdrew she ironically found herself at
the doorway for the first time in her life of being truly
aroused. "There's an old proverb," continued Wood, rising and walking towards the fire,
"which says,—'Put another man's child in your bosom, and he'll creep out at
your elbow. “It seems to me it comes to earning one’s living in the long run,” said Ann
Veronica, coloring faintly. ”
Presently, as if for comparison with her father’s letter, she got out Ramage’s
check from the box that contained her papers. “Only married a few months ago and lived
out at Hampstead. Both had dropped the rather elaborate politeness of the
dining-room, and in their faces an impartial observer would have discovered
little lines of obstinate wilfulness in common; a certain hardness—sharp, indeed,
in the father and softly rounded in the daughter—but hardness nevertheless, that
made every compromise a bargain and every charity a discount. “Etherialized monkey,” she said. Luckily, she was bereft of consciousness, and was thus spared the additional
misery of witnessing what afterwards befell him. She had behaved in every way perfectly. There came to
Spurlock the recurrence of the grim resolution of what he had set out to do: that
comradeship was all he might ever give this exquisite creature; for she was
exquisite, and in a way she dominated this picture of sea and sky and sail.
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