And why, after
all, should she not borrow money from Ramage?
It was so true what he said; middle-class people WERE ridiculously
squeamish about money. The important secret
remained locked in my breast, but I resolved to be avenged. ’
The footman did not object, but it was plain he felt he was neglecting his duty,
for he emitted an admonitory cough, causing the captain to pause in his way to
the library across the hall. We can’t afford to
turn our women, our Madonnas, our Saint Catherines, our Mona Lisas, our
goddesses and angels and fairy princesses, into a sort of man. He stood back, smiling with an air of proprietorship, and looking about him at
the business-like equipment of the room. The blue jowl,
the fat-lidded eyes—now merry, now alert, now tungsten hard—the bullet head,
the pudgy fingers and the square-toed shoes were all in conformation with the
doctor's olden mental picture. And her kind of love forgives everything
and anything but infidelity. But it means no end of
a row. The spirit of disaffection was busy throughout the kingdom. Before her stretched blank spaces,
dotted with running people coming toward her, and below them railings and a
statue. Meantime the spinsters sought the dining room where tea was being served. Ladders, paviour's rams, sledge-hammers, and
other destructive implements were procured, and, in all probability, their purpose
would have been effected, but for the opportune arrival of a detachment of the
guards, who dispersed them, not without some loss of life.
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