She could smell him almost as
strongly as she could the new paint on the fire escape
walls, along with the wool suit and the weird polyester
smell of his wet umbrella. '—'No fear o' that,' thought I. “Veronique!” she cried
with a rising intonation, though never before had she called Ann Veronica
anything but Miss Stanley, and seized her and squeezed her and kissed her with
profound emotion. A wide terrace then led to large iron gates,' over which were
placed the two celebrated figures of Raving and Melancholy Madness, executed
by the elder Cibber, and commemorated by Pope in the Dunciad, in the wellknown lines:—
"Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne,
And laughs to think Monroe would take her down,
Where, o'er the gates, by his famed father's hand,
Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand. ‘Don’t let us quarrel over your Leonardo,’ he said, summoning a faint smile. And he would express
various artistic sensibilities and aesthetic appreciations in carefully punctuated
sentences and a large, clear voice. “See you. “I will not intrude upon you further. "
So saying, he sprang, with a bound like that of a tiger-cat, against the throat of
the woollen-draper. Yon must be mine to-night. Besides," added he, opening the shawl in which the infant was wrapped,
and throwing the light of the candle full upon its sickly, but placid features, "it's
sinful to repine while you've a child like this to comfort you. You sing better than
Annabel ever did, you have even a better style. "Well, you women are forgiving creatures, I must say," observed Jonathan,
sarcastically. I can’t but feel it’s an undesirable complication to drag
in the Charvills at this point. Looked all over
that dratted convent of yours—or at least Trodger and the men did so—but no
sign of them.
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