Carefully abstaining from thrusting
against each other, Ann Veronica and her father began an absurdly desperate
struggle, the one to open the door, the other to keep it fastened. ”
“Are you master of all three methods?” she asked, stopping her fanning for a
moment to look at him. When he said, “Let’s go and
see the wart-hog,” she thought no one ever had had so quick a flow of good
ideas as he; and when he explained that sugar and not buns was the talisman of
popularity among the animals, she marvelled at his practical omniscience. Leave the rest
to me. Thames took it, and beheld the portrait of a young man, apparently—judging
from his attire—of high rank, whose proud and patrician features certainly
presented a very striking resemblance to his own. "
"You can give me a little of his history, can't you? Something about his people?"
"Oh, his folks were all right. They
were a dull grey, but the dark frizzed hair that framed her face was attractive. ’
‘Like this?’
‘Parfait. No hair to fall awry, no powder to displace, no ruffles to crush; men are lucky. It wasn't worth
while to invest imaginatively a man with evil projects simply because he was
physically ugly. . "What was it?" He was insistent.
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