How she had hated it!… All these
mumblings which were never explained, which carried no more sense to her
brain than they would have carried to Old Morgan's swearing parrot. ‘I know what it means, numbskull! Didn’t
spend years in the confounded country without picking up some of their infernal
tongue. “Go from me, husband!” With a flourish he brought
her arms behind her and her body was slammed to the
floor. And this great mellow place, this
London, now was hers, to struggle with, to go where she pleased in, to overcome
and live in. You are without sense and not sympathique in the least. ”
“I couldn’t do that,” said Ann Veronica, sharply. I asked you to go. She had exposed the real story behind Peters tragedy,
that dark, handsome Chuck had killed himself by leaving
the car running in the garage, not from a “heart attack” as
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claimed the party line. ”
She looked up at him, and found he was watching her closely. Sometimes I
think you would have been much better off if you had
been born in death-worshipping Egypt instead of in the
Fourteenth Century. Her hands wove
through his black hair, luxuriating in its thickness. ”
She looked thoughtfully into the fire. The picture in her mind altered and she saw again the way
Gerald had looked with consternation upon the bruises he had inflicted on her
wrist. Just as
soon as I deal with this little tramp, I’m going to divorce
you and take every penny that you’ve ever made,
including your pension and your measly inheritance from
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your dishrag of a father!”
Something in the little man’s mind snapped. He made it more and more evident to her that her proper
course was not to earn a salary but to accumulate equipment.
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