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"Never!" rejoined Kneebone, with increased ardour,—"never, till I receive from
your own lips the answer which is to make me the happiest or the most
miserable of mankind. “Troubles, my friend,” she exclaimed lightly. ‘My wife would say she is English a little. “It was not necessary,” Sir John answered stiffly. “But I’m afraid you are going to
be in a hopeless minority here as regards me. There were words,
then, that ran on indefinitely, with reversals? Here they meant one thing; there,
the exact opposite. ” She felt his heart warming
the small room like a radiator. ” He handed her the phone
reluctantly, barely masking his mild disgust. And I need not tell you that her hotel bill is running on the same as
yours. On reflection, it occurred to him that he might, perhaps, be able to loosen the
iron fillet; a notion no sooner conceived than executed. And it had not shocked her! It was this appalling absence of indignation that had
put terror into her heart. ”
He dropped his eye-glass with a clatter. ”
“It’s scandalous, but I suppose it is. Something he
saw there had a curious effect upon him. Some day, when the rewards of literature permit the arduous research
required, the Campaign of the Women will find its Carlyle, and the particulars of
that marvellous series of exploits by which Miss Brett and her colleagues nagged
the whole Western world into the discussion of women’s position become the
material for the most delightful and amazing descriptions.
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