’ His head came thrusting out at Melusine like a belligerent tortoise from
its shell. Wild in his
own domain. "But I appeal to you, Sir James, whether it isn't extraordinary that so very slight
a person should be such a desperate robber as he is represented—so young, too,
for such an old offender. When he comes he will do that raid of the pantechnicons
the justice it deserves; he will picture the orderly evening scene about the
Imperial Legislature in convincing detail, the coming and going of cabs and
motor-cabs and broughams through the chill, damp evening into New Palace
Yard, the reinforced but untroubled and unsuspecting police about the entries of
those great buildings whose square and panelled Victorian Gothic streams up
from the glare of the lamps into the murkiness of the night; Big Ben shining
overhead, an unassailable beacon, and the incidental traffic of Westminster, cabs,
carts, and glowing omnibuses going to and from the bridge. “That is very nice of you,” she said. I thought you understood. To
such characters, fine actions are in themselves sufficient. To him she had always appeared as a mere pleasure-loving
parasite—something quite insignificant. Never
had her father explained. ‘Very. He stamped
his last letter as Annabel entered. Anna saw it, and for the first time found herself trembling. How dreary it all looks.
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