It’s
not a bit of good pretending there’s any Higher Truth or wonderful principle in
this business. Hetty, looking out of the window—she always smoked her after-breakfast
cigarette at the window for the benefit of the less advanced section of
Morningside Park society—and trying not to raise objections, saw Miss Stanley
going down toward the shops. Immediately behind this individual, came a pale, poverty-stricken woman,
whose forlorn aspect contrasted strongly with his plump and comfortable
physiognomy. ‘Now then,’ said the captain sternly, ‘I’m not going to ask you what you’re
doing here. She turned to face him and
he kissed her. He was pretty successful in Manchester,—a town which
may be said to have been the head-quarters of the disaffected. The brain tires of resistance, and when it meets
again and again, incoherently active, the same phrases, the same ideas that it has
already slain, exposed and dissected and buried, it becomes less and less
energetic to repeat the operation. “I know the place you mean—very good cooking for such
an out-of-the-way show. Sooner or later she’s going to run away again, and I
want Frith to follow her and find out where she’s living. “Of course I’m manager for this expedition,” he
said, after an interval of self-examination. It was his belief that the French had enough troubles of their own in these
difficult times without bothering to nose out British business. "
"It ought to be; it cost enough to get it here," said the Scot, ruefully.
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