“We pretend bodies are
ugly. Being in a great
hurry, he took little heed where he set his feet; and a board giving way, he must
have fallen, if he had not grasped a large plank laid upon the transverse beam
immediately over his head. "Like a hero," answered Austin. "
He did not reply. “Dear friend,” she said, “do you not think that you are breaking an unspoken
compact? I am very sorry. It is quite a descent from the clouds, isn’t it?”
“I will accept that,” Anna said, “as accounting for the surprise. When is the game?\"
She did her best to overhaul her own appearance for
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the greater part of an hour, blotting lips, fluffing the
brush over her face. Wood, in a whisper, as he filled a rummer to the
brim, not to forget the health of the Chevalier de Saint George—a proposition to
which the lady immediately responded by drinking the toast aloud. He made it more and more evident to her that her proper
course was not to earn a salary but to accumulate equipment. Some indeed carried themselves, dressed themselves even, rather as
foreign visitors from the land of “Looking Backward” and “News from
Nowhere” than as the indigenous Londoners they were. Before retracing his steps, however, he allowed his gaze to range
over the vast and beautiful prospect spread out beneath him, which is now
hidden, from the traveller's view by the high walls of the General Cemetery, and
can, consequently, only be commanded from the interior of that attractive place
of burial,—and which, before it was intersected by canals and railroads, and
portioned out into hippodromes, was exquisite indeed.
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