She rose briskly,
turned on the light, and opened Les Misérables to the episode of the dark forest:
where Jean Valjean reaches out and takes Cosette's frightful pail from her
chapped little hands. She dragged the broken bottle
across her carotid artery, creating an inch-deep gash upon
her throat. You’re such a strange girl. Her mouth lolled open and
drool seeped down one corner. I’m in a mess—a
nasty mess! a filthy mess! Oh, no end of a mess!
“Do you hear, Ann Veronica?—you’re in a nasty, filthy, unforgivable mess!
“Haven’t I just made a silly mess of things?
“Forty pounds! I haven’t got twenty!”
She got up, stamped with her foot, and then, suddenly remembering the lodger
below, sat down and wrenched off her boots. Martin’s parents looked at each other in embarrassed,
silent communication. In his
condition the boy apparently had been as safe as in the lock-up. “We have,” he said, “to be the utmost friends. Taking her limbs was the only thing I could do short of
killing her. I don’t know. Bodies were piled high in the
streets, Sebastian went on rounds and would come back
late at night, reporting horrors and robberies, death that
came within hours, not days. ”
“I wish you good luck,” she answered.
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