“We are, or rather we were, so much alike then
that the portrait of either of us would have done for the other. With his black
and gray hair, his gray-green eyes were a striking contrast
and he looked even younger, as if he had been frozen at
age thirty-three. “The wrappered life-discipline! One comes to that at last. Wood,
whose loss I shall ever deplore. 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. The place was
crowded, and the people about her were almost equally made up of very goodlooking and enthusiastic young people and a great variety of Goopes-like types. Annabel was born
soulless, a human butterfly, if ever there was one. What more is there to be said? She defies me!”
It was extraordinary. Anna took up the pen, and signed, after a moment’s
hesitation,
A. “I have heard of you, of course,” Anna answered hesitatingly, “but——”
“You cannot imagine what I have come to see you about. John finally wrested her away from the company of his
parents, insisting that he wanted to take a walk in the park
before it was completely dark. She got hysterical. ‘I do not remember the name,’ Melusine said, turning to Mrs Ibstock.
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