At Christmas he gave her a set of a small
edition of Meredith’s novels, very prettily bound in flexible leather, being guided
in the choice of an author, as he intimated, rather by her preferences than his
own. They went to the Zoological
Gardens together one Saturday to see for themselves a point of morphological
interest about the toucan’s bill—that friendly and entertaining bird—and they
spent the rest of the afternoon walking about and elaborating in general terms
this theme and the superiority of intellectual fellowship to all merely passionate
relationships. ”
Anna was silent. And if she is not a nun, nor a refugee, and yet is entirely
English, I’m hanged if I know what she is. When she came to, she was lying with her head in Martha’s lap, and a livid
bruise was forming at the point of a raging headache. Gerald stood quite still for a moment or two, listening intently. Over these hung levels, bevels, squares, and other instruments
of measurement. ‘Please to sit, monsieur. She could not
say who, not yet. "
"You judged rightly," rejoined Jack; "I never yet broke an engagement with
friend or foe—and never will. She visualized him as in a policeman’s
uniform and quite impassive. Ann Veronica sat back in an attitude of inattention, her eyes on
a distant game of cricket, her mind perplexed and busy.
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