And for me there is only
one treasure-house. She is a fortune-teller and
a vessel for man’s pleasure. Would there be enough in the
young man's envelope to pay the doctor and the hotel bill—and in the event of
his death, enough to ship the body home? So all things pointed to the happy
circumstance of setting this young fool upon his feet again, of seeing him hence
upon his journey. "
"I was educated in America. Mike was draped over the
laminate kitchen counter, on the phone as usual. Only one thing emerged with
any reasonable clarity in her mind at once, and that was that unless she was
saved from drowning by an unmarried man, in which case the ceremony is
unavoidable, or totally destitute of under-clothing, and so driven to get a
trousseau, in which hardship a trousseau would certainly be “ripping,” marriage
was an experience to be strenuously evaded. ‘Now what?’
The girl’s voice was shaking, and there were, he saw now, angry tears in her
eyes. He wore a French military
undress of the period, with high jack-boots, and a laced hat; and, though his
attire indicated no particular rank, he had completely the air of a person of
distinction. Kneebone's house, the young man hastened to a hotel in the
neighbourhood of Covent Garden, where, having procured a horse, he shaped his
course towards the west end of the town. CHAPTER XXVII. ‘I do not know the word in English.
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