”
“You forget,” she said, looking up at him with a faint smile, “that under the cloak
of her name I am earning more money a week than I could ever have earned in a
year by my own labours. But—Miss Pellissier!”
“Well?”
“Are you quite sure that you want us this evening? Wouldn’t you rather be
alone? Just say the word, and we’ll clear out like a shot. All who lived
there aspired to be something greater, all who lived there
had hope, even the slaves! Oh, Lucia, if you could have
seen the Parthenon, or attended the plays at the
Athaneum, you would know why I loved it there. Whatever anticipation Ann Veronica had formed of this
vanished in the reality. Without a word or a gesture, the Wastrel turned and staggered forth, out of the
orbit of these two, having been thrust into it for a single purpose already
described. I’m the sort of dog, if you turn it out of the
room it lies down on the mat at the door. I'm one of those unfortunate duffers who have too much
imagination—the kind who build their own chimeras and then run away from
them.
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