For what could be more ironical
than for Howard Spurlock to see himself grow famous under the name of Taber?
The ambrosia of which he had so happily dreamt!—and this gall and
wormwood! He stood up and rapped his pipe on the rail. But there was, it insisted, no mobility in his face, no
movement, nothing about him that warmed. The life of a girl presented itself to her as something happy and heedless and
unthinking, yet really guided and controlled by others, and going on amidst
unsuspected screens and concealments. "You must take it to Sir Rowland
Trenchard's in Southampton Fields. "Where's Thames?" he hastily inquired. ”
“Maybe I should stay away. ”
“And he accepted meekly?”
“Practically. ‘Do not smile at me and try to make me not angry any more,’ Melusine
warned, ‘for I am very angry indeed with you. Outside stood a
stocky, combat boot-clad girl of seventeen with a teased
mass of spiky bottle-black hair. Sampans with fish and fruit and vegetables swarmed about, while overhead gulls
wheeled and swooped and circled. Last night there had been no time. Not
even for Ruth could he do such a beastly thing.
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