"She's glorious!" He knew that he must hoodwink this keeneyed Scot, even as he must hoodwink everybody: publicly, the devoted husband;
privately, the celibate. 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. "They say her son's taken at last, and is to be hanged. And a custom had grown up of a general tea at four o’clock,
under the auspices of a Miss Garvice, a tall and graceful girl of distinguished
intellectual incompetence, in whom the hostess instinct seemed to be abnormally
developed. We
made sure it was just like Gwen. You’re tired, of
course. Sheppard, with a vehemence that shook even the
hardened wretch beside her, "begone, and tempt me not. In one angle of the room stood a disused fire-place, with a rusty
grate and broken chimney-piece; in the other there was a sort of box, contrived
between the wall and the boards, that looked like an apology for a cupboard. There must be real
Valjeans, else how could authors write about them? Supposing some day she met
one of these astonishing creators, who could make one cry and laugh and forget,
who could thrill one with love and anger and tenderness?
Most of us have witnessed carnivals. Indeed it was apparent,
from the likeness between them, that they were nearly related. CHAPTER XXII. She meditated
profoundly through several enormous cold hours on all that had happened and all
that she had done since the swirl of the suffrage movement had submerged her
personal affairs.
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