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Part 6
In the afternoon she resumed her search for apartments. But as the students sat about Miss Garvice’s tea-pot and drank tea or smoked
cigarettes, the talk got away from Capes. I change them in the morning at Cannon Street, and take
my book as I come down. Every rule is against me—Why did I let you begin this? I might have told—”
“I don’t see that you could help—”
“I might have helped—”
“You couldn’t. "
"Don't be angry with me, Sir," cried the widow, sobbing bitterly, "pray don't. And she had not dressed herself in this habit of
a blue so much like the sky just for his sake, no matter that Lucy had said how
much this colour suited with her eyes. But then—Oh! Madam, there are moments—moments of darkness, which
overshadow a whole existence—in the lives of the poor houseless wretches who
traverse the streets, when reason is well-nigh benighted; when the horrible
promptings of despair can, alone, be listened to; and when vice itself assumes
the aspect of virtue. “Grail!” said Ann Veronica, and then: “Oh, yes—of course! Anything but a
holy one, I’m afraid. It’s on the horse. What could be more splendid than a beautiful girl facing a
great, glorious tiger? Una and the Lion again, and all that! But this isn’t that sort
of thing; this is just a great, ugly, endless wilderness of selfish, sweating, vulgar
competition!”
“That you want to keep me out of?”
“Exactly!” said Mr. No: I must face it out. I want to go on with my University work under
proper conditions, now that I’ve done the Intermediate. Return to him, I say—"
"I can't," replied Jack, doggedly. “You remind me of the story which they tell against us over here,
you know—of the Englishman who refused to be saved from drowning because
he was unacquainted with his rescuer. "Try fifty pounds more," said Jonathan.
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