I’m
anxious, joyfully anxious, like a man when he has found a treasure. Do you think we could
manage that old clothesman between us, if we got out of this box?"
"I'd manage him myself, if my arms were free," replied Thames, boldly. “You are neither of you in the least
like the ordinary boarding-house young man. "
Sheppard started to his feet. But how to avail himself of it was the question, for in his present garb he
was sure to be recognised. ’
His features relaxed again and he grinned. "Unless you have eaten a Syrian orange," he was always saying, "you have only
a rudimentary idea of what an orange is. But the Ramage affair needed clearing up, of course; it was a flaw upon that
project. ”
“I say, you know, you have some pluck. You are my
wife now and you belong to me. So Monday, when I see one of the maids come out
with a basket, for to go fetch summat for that other Frenchie—the female as I
told you about, miss, as is forever coming and going with the nobs. “Why, it’s David!” he exclaimed. She felt she
had stepped into a world of unknown usages. Miss Garvice assumed a
quality of neutrality, professed herself almost won over by Ann Veronica’s
example, and the Scotchman decided that if women had a distinctive sphere it
was, at any rate, an enlarging sphere, and no one who believed in the doctrine of
evolution could logically deny the vote to women “ultimately,” however much
they might be disposed to doubt the advisability of its immediate concession. ’
Arrested, Melusine eyed her with interest.
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