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There was a pause. Aren't we
funny? And just as I was beginning to lose faith in human beings, to have
someone like this come along! It is almost as if she were acting a rôle, and she
isn't. Beneath the hood it was evident that her rebellious hair was bound up
with red silk, and fastened by some device in her ears (unless she had them
pierced, which was too dreadful a thing to suppose!) were long brass filigree
earrings. That's one of the troubles with young folks:
they take themselves so seriously. Anna raised her eyes. ‘What the devil for?’
‘Messenger,’ Gerald explained. As she crossed the square, almost within a stone’s throw of her lodgings, she
came face to face with Courtlaw. That is how I learned that there were such things as
novels. It brought no
coconut. ‘Unheard of, ain’t
it? To tell the truth, I half expected him to leave everything to one of his doxies. Shotbolt nodded in token of acquiescence, and emitted an odd guttural sound. The prodigious success of the "Beggars' Opera," which was produced about four
years after the date of this history, rewarded him for all his previous
disappointments, though it did not fully justify the well-known epigram, alluding
to himself and the manager, and "make Gay rich, and Rich gay.
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