But I am not worthy to be any man's wife
—far less his wife. "
"You'll never live to see that day," cried Blueskin, fixing a menacing look upon
him. Ann Veronica decided she would have to go on with Capes another day,
and, looking up, discovered him sitting on a stool with his hands in his pockets
and his head a little on one side, regarding her with a thoughtful expression. ’
‘Of what use to be ladylike when I cannot be a lady?’
‘None of that. "I
am happy—quite happy now. Surely it was a dream. A wide terrace then led to large iron gates,' over which were
placed the two celebrated figures of Raving and Melancholy Madness, executed
by the elder Cibber, and commemorated by Pope in the Dunciad, in the wellknown lines:—
"Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne,
And laughs to think Monroe would take her down,
Where, o'er the gates, by his famed father's hand,
Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand. A sense of loss was amongst us. And now the fiend Gosse had taken even that
away from her. ToC
Thames Darrell's fears were not, however, groundless.
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