\"Is there something desperately wrong with your
house?\"
\"There is nothing wrong with our house. “Beasts!”
But Miss Miniver took no notice of his admission. ‘Gabbling and muttering in a foreign tongue, that’s what I heard, sir,’ had
declared the gap-toothed ancient, when he told them of the initial foray he had
made, sneaking around the house in the dark. ‘Do
you know, Mademoiselle Charvill, you are a thought too clever for your own
good. Fifteen from forty is twenty-five. “Permit me to offer you the English paper which has just arrived, Sir John,” he
said, holding out a Daily Telegraph. “Why did I ever take that loan? An idiot girl in an asylum would have known
better than that!
“Vulgarity of soul and innocence of mind—the worst of all conceivable
combinations. But the people among whom she was now thrown through the
social exertions of Miss Miniver and the Widgetts—for Teddy and Hetty came
up from Morningside Park and took her to an eighteen-penny dinner in Soho and
introduced her to some art students, who were also Socialists, and so opened the
way to an evening of meandering talk in a studio—carried with them like an
atmosphere this implication, not only that the world was in some stupid and even
obvious way WRONG, with which indeed she was quite prepared to agree, but
that it needed only a few pioneers to behave as such and be thoroughly and
indiscriminately “advanced,” for the new order to achieve itself. 58
\"Why will you not touch me?\" She cried out, sitting
up, her head in her hands.
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