About her, as she had gone day by
day to and from the Tredgold College, she had seen and not seen many an
incidental aspect of those sides of life about which girls are expected to know
nothing, aspects that were extraordinarily relevant to her own position and
outlook on the world, and yet by convention ineffably remote. Moving swiftly to the end of the corridor, he pushed
open a door at random and entered a large room, which looked to have been a
saloon, judging from the faded gilt and crimson wall-paper, a mirror above the
fireplace which was surrounded by an ornate gilded frame, now sadly tarnished,
and a worn Chippendale sofa with striped upholstery and tasselled cushions. The lantern was on the ground inside, ready. One of the reasons why I
decline to talk is this: that boy's punishment will be enough. Jolly nose! the bright rubies that garnish thy tip
Are dug from the mines of canary;
And to keep up their lustre I moisten my lip
With hogsheads of claret and sherry. ‘It is the life I know. Something about the girl had suggested an
idea. ’ But I
made sure it was you. The first was to break a dinner engagement. But the relief
from the strain of her immediate necessities was immense. None of the things they said and did were altogether new to Ann Veronica, but
now she got them massed and alive, instead of by glimpses or in books—alive
and articulate and insistent. "
With this, he attacked her vigorously in his turn. ”
“You came—here!” he repeated, vaguely. “I wonder why I am
always hungry nowadays.
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