She listened
with dumb fear in her eyes. More strange stories were told of
it than of any other house in London. “Can you take any from me?”
“No, I won’t do that. Ramage,” said Ann Veronica, “I want to go—NOW!”
Part 5
But she did not get away just then. When he comes he will do that raid of the pantechnicons
the justice it deserves; he will picture the orderly evening scene about the
Imperial Legislature in convincing detail, the coming and going of cabs and
motor-cabs and broughams through the chill, damp evening into New Palace
Yard, the reinforced but untroubled and unsuspecting police about the entries of
those great buildings whose square and panelled Victorian Gothic streams up
from the glare of the lamps into the murkiness of the night; Big Ben shining
overhead, an unassailable beacon, and the incidental traffic of Westminster, cabs,
carts, and glowing omnibuses going to and from the bridge. The slack of her ridinghabit and full under-petticoats was gathered into her left hand, and her booted
ankles were visible as she held the skirts well out of her way. Gianfrancesco became agitated. I mean that the point is that vividness of perception is the essential factor of
beauty; but, of course, vividness may be created by a whisper. From the freshness
of the stains, which grew more frequent as they approached the adjoining
chamber, it was evident some violence had been recently perpetrated, and the
carpenter's own blood froze within his veins as he thought, with a thrill of horror,
that, perhaps on this very spot, not many minutes before his arrival, his adopted
son might have been inhumanly butchered. “But then they would find that check endorsed in his bureau. She felt she must suffocate if these men did not put her down, and
for a time they would not put her down. It’s
best. He nodded silently, too full for words. Before you have lived—”
He became darkly prophetic. And for me there is only
one treasure-house.
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