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. But something
instinctive prevented that, and with the finest resolve not to be “silly” and
prudish she found that whenever he became at all bold in this matter she became
severely scientific and impersonal, almost entomological indeed, in her method;
she killed every remark as he made it and pinned it out for examination. It was a pity he didn't break his neck, for he was hanged within the
year. No great lover of state or state costume
at any time, he was generally, towards the close of an evening, completely in
dishabille, and in this condition he now presented himself to his subjects. Below it a prodigiously large bolt
was shot into the socket, and, in order to keep it there, was fastened by a hasp,
and further protected by an immense padlock.
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