She gazed steadily out of the window at that arc of glittering
lights. ‘But it is not on the horse at all, Jacques. Who
could guarantee a safer existence outside Florence?
That Sebastian seemed to have a weird immunity to
the Pestilence was a trait that went unquestioned,
unanswered. She
refused to accept her fate, but what is it that she could do
about it? Night after night she invented alternatives. There were menacing possibilities;
the thought of them set him a-tremble. "'And thine eye shall not pity,'" said her father, in a tone of rebuke, "'but, life
shall be for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. In the next place, she really had some
pretensions to beauty. In addition to the various business men, solicitors, civil servants, and widow
ladies who lived in the Morningside Park Avenue, there was a certain family of
alien sympathies and artistic quality, the Widgetts, with which Ann Veronica had
become very friendly.
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