‘Now then, girl. Why was she noting things like this? Capes seemed selfpossessed and elaborately genial and commonplace, but she knew him to be
nervous by a little occasional clumsiness, by the faintest shadow of vulgarity in
the urgency of his hospitality. Chapter XXIII
MONTAGUE HILL SEES LIGHT AT LAST
At exactly ten minutes past ten Annabel rang the bell of her sister’s flat. We'll be upon the ban-dogs before they can shake their trotters!"
And the alarm was sounded more loudly than ever. "If I get free, I'll have a bout with you at all weapons. There was a short, red-faced,
resolute youth who inherited an authoritative attitude upon bacteriology from his
father; a Japanese student of unassuming manners who drew beautifully and had
an imperfect knowledge of English; and a dark, unwashed Scotchman with
complicated spectacles, who would come every morning as a sort of volunteer
supplementary demonstrator, look very closely at her work and her, tell her that
her dissections were “fairish,” or “very fairish indeed,” or “high above the
normal female standard,” hover as if for some outbreak of passionate gratitude
and with admiring retrospects that made the facetted spectacles gleam like
diamonds, return to his own place. ‘This idiotic female—’
‘This imbecile has made me—’
‘—made me lose my temper, and I—’
‘—cut him with my dagger, and he is—’
‘—damn near slit her throat!’
‘—bleeding like a pig!’
‘Whoa, whoa!’ stormed the captain, starting forward. It is a lovely little appendage to
the mother who smiles over it, and it does things quaintly like her, gestures with
her very gestures. In any place her beauty would have been an uncommon
thing. ‘First I must see Jacques, and—’
‘No need for that,’ intervened Roding, grasping her arm and trying to drag her
to the door.
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