Chapter VIII
“WHITE’S”
Northwards, away from the inhospitality of West Kensington, rumbled the
ancient four-wheel cab, laden with luggage and drawn by a wheezy old horse
rapidly approaching its last days. “I think that I will leave this letter for him,” she said. “If you really are going
to wait, make yourself as comfortable as you can. What he needed was not a food
but a flavour; and the cocoanut taste of the chestnuts soothed his burning tongue
and throat. Jack turned away with an aching heart. We can’t afford to
turn our women, our Madonnas, our Saint Catherines, our Mona Lisas, our
goddesses and angels and fairy princesses, into a sort of man. He was introduced to
Brendon, and a chair was brought by an attentive waiter. He could hardly open the envelope, he trembled
so. FOOTNOTES:
[A] At the hospital of Saint Giles for Lazars, the prisoners conveyed from the City of
London towards Tyburn, there to be executed for treasons, felonies, or other
trespasses, were presented with a Bowl of Ale, thereof to drink, as their last refreshing
in this life. A third that joined this to the chambers at the front of the house. “I wonder,” he said, “if women do know things by instinct? I have my doubts
about feminine instinct. "Ah!" cried Wild, laying down his pen and looking up with a smile of
satisfaction. "I'm my own
master now, and I'll do as I please. "I'll now pay the debt I owe you," cried Jack, tightening his grip till the thieftaker blackened in the face. Melusine choked on a laugh, and Gerald at once seized the initiative, speaking
in a tone deliberately soothing.
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