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‘Yes, ma’am,’ agreed Gerald with a grin. The thought of beauty became an obsession. ‘You think
my father would not have married Suzanne if he had known? Me, I do not agree. Wild has given you some employment, Mr. Were I a painter of subject pictures, I would exhaust all my skill in proportion
and perspective and atmosphere upon the august seat of empire, I would present
it gray and dignified and immense and respectable beyond any mere verbal
description, and then, in vivid black and very small, I would put in those
valiantly impertinent vans, squatting at the base of its altitudes and pouring out a
swift, straggling rush of ominous little black objects, minute figures of
determined women at war with the universe. The fascination of the idea of throwing
himself upon his knees and crying out all that was in his heart! As his eyes began
to focus objects, he saw one of her arms extended upon the counterpane, in his
direction, the hand clenched tightly. And
where was that devil? Had the soldiers found him? She could not think he had
escaped, for she had only just made it into the passage as they entered the library. She recalled that she had heard nothing
that first time when Gerald and the captain had burst in upon her. It is a cheering reflection, that in the present prison, with its clean, wellwhitewashed, and well-ventilated wards, its airy courts, its infirmary, its
improved regulations, and its humane and intelligent officers, many of the
miseries of the old jail are removed.
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