The assemblage was
for the most part, if not altogether, composed of persons to whom vice in all its
aspects was too familiar to present much of novelty, in whatever form it was
exhibited. ”
“My feeling in the matter,” Sir John said, “is as I have stated. "Well, who'd have thought of finding it
in this unexpected way!"
"Don't be too sure till you see it," said the widow. “You
know very well that she is selfish and pleasure-loving to the backbone. It became a sort of duel at last between them, and all the
others sat and listened—every one, that is, except the Alderman, who had got the
blond young man into a corner by the green-stained dresser with the aluminum
things, and was sitting with his back to every one else, holding one hand over his
mouth for greater privacy, and telling him, with an accent of confidential
admission, in whispers of the chronic struggle between the natural modesty and
general inoffensiveness of the Borough Council and the social evil in
Marylebone. You seem altogether altered, too. It’s a tremendous blow, of course—but it doesn’t kill me. “One is always playing the surgeon, one
kills always the thing one loves best. 165
“Uh, my parents are going skiing in Colorado after
New Year’s. As she danced there was in
her ears the faded echo of wooden tom-toms. My friends
consider it wonderfully faithful. I had a sort of idea,” he went on, “that you were starting life all over
again, and it seemed awfully plucky. ’
‘It’s already known,’ said Mrs Sindlesham, ‘judging by the number of callers
we have had these two days. Such names shone
brightly in the darkness, with black spaces of unilluminated emptiness about
them, as stars shine in the night; but now—now it was different; now it was
dawn—the real dawn.
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