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 fence with me,” Anna cried fiercely. ‘Lay him down on a sofa,’ Melusine said, coming out behind them and
moving towards the antechamber. He cupped her small hands in the bowl of his large
ones and reassured her in the kindest manner, saying,
“You will have the finest life that Florence has to offer. Gerald had himself told
her that this Prudence will present her to society as Melusine Charvill. At this gate two paths meet. “I had lunch very late to-day,
and I did not get home in time for dinner. Are you going to have any apple-tart,
Stanley? The apple-tart’s been very good lately—very good!”
Part 7
At the end of dinner that evening Ann Veronica began: “Father!”
Her father looked at her over his glasses and spoke with grave deliberation;
“If there is anything you want to say to me,” he said, “you must say it in the
study. I thought that he was dead. Certainly you have a reason.
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