Whoever chose to
incur the risk of so doing might enter the Mint at any hour; but no one was
suffered to depart without giving a satisfactory account of himself, or producing
a pass from the Master. He knew the circle of mountains about Saas Fee fairly well: he had been there
twice before, and it was fine to get away from the straggling pedestrians into the
high, lonely places, and sit and munch sandwiches and talk together and do
things together that were just a little difficult and dangerous. You must know, Sir, when he was a lad, the day after he
broke into his master's house in Wych Street, he picked a gentleman's pocket in
our church, during sarvice time,—that he did, the heathen. Awful shapes seemed to flit by, borne on the wings of the tempest,
animating and directing its fury. ’
‘Oh, this is becoming nonsensical,’ exclaimed Lucilla. It was still profoundly dark; but the wind, which had
begun to blow with some violence, chased the clouds rapidly across the heavens,
and dispersed the vapours hanging nearer the earth. He breathed a
little sigh of satisfaction. Something namelessly abhorrent in the eyes of those men…!
She knew what arms were for—to fold and embrace and to hold one tightly; but
why men wished to kiss women was still a profound mystery. He felt like a boy again, the taste for adventures was keen upon his palate, the
whole undiscovered world of rhythmical things, of love and poetry and passion
seemed again to him a real and actual place, and he himself an adventurer upon
the threshold. This fracture was the
handiwork of Jack Parrot (otherwise called Jack the Grinder), who broke into the
palace of the Bishop of Norwich. I can’t do it even decently myself, and I
dare not run the risk of ruining all my clothes. You mustn't go by what you read so much
as by what you see and hear. He grasped Lucilla’s elbow.
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