"The long and the short o' the matter's this then," returned Sharples with dignity,
"the Markis begs your acceptance o' ten guineas to drink his health. So she approached
him with sandwiches. His face turned a dark
crimson. "Well, what can you expect, guzzling poison like that?
Are you returning with us to Hong-Kong in the morning?"
"No. " There was a pause. ‘That’s better. Since morning he had become fanatical; the atoms of common sense no longer
functioned in the accustomed groove. There was first the Avenue,
which ran in a consciously elegant curve from the railway station into an
undeveloped wilderness of agriculture, with big, yellow brick villas on either
side, and then there was the pavement, the little clump of shops about the postoffice, and under the railway arch was a congestion of workmen’s dwellings. A bowl of roses, just brought by Ann Veronica, adorned the communal
dressing-table, and Ann Veronica was particularly trim in preparation for a call
she was to make with her aunt later in the afternoon. The unfortunate carpenter struggled violently, but ineffectually. The prostitute’s attack
was predictable, typical. ”
“I can’t go back to the Beck’s ever again.
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