Hill lost a little of his truculency. Wood, popping her head
through the window. Selling out of the Army to take up his inheritance had spelled boredom to Gerald
Alderley. ”
“But didn’t Alice want to marry Doctor Ralph?”
“Oh, ssh, Vee!” said her mother, with an evasion as patent as an advertisement
board. Her aunt did not object to capital punishment or war, or the industrial system
or casual wards, or flogging of criminals or the Congo Free State, because none
of these things really got hold of her imagination; but she did object, she did not
like, she could not bear to think of people not having and enjoying their meals. “Do you remember the mountains? Do you remember how we loved one
another? How intensely we loved one another! Do you remember the light on
things and the glory of things? I’m greedy, I’m greedy! I want children like the
mountains and life like the sky. "
"A miniature! Of whom?"
"That I can't say," replied Jack, mysteriously. ”
“You’ll never pay me. Wood,
and however he might dissent from the latter proposition, he did not deem it
expedient to make any reply; and the orator proceeded with his harangue amid
the general applause of the assemblage.
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