"But, what of that? It'll be a
lesson to him in future, and will show him the folly of doing a good-natured
action!"
But perceiving that his companion did not relish his pleasantry and fearing that
his sympathy for the carpenter's situation might betray him into some act of
imprudence, Jonathan, without further remark, and by way of putting an end to
the discussion, let himself drop through the roof. ’
‘Ah, but there’s the little matter of your presence here,’ said Gerald on a note
of apology. "Everything has prospered with him in an extraordinary manner. What was the alternative to going home? No alternative appeared in that
darkness. Are you going to have any apple-tart,
Stanley? The apple-tart’s been very good lately—very good!”
Part 7
At the end of dinner that evening Ann Veronica began: “Father!”
Her father looked at her over his glasses and spoke with grave deliberation;
“If there is anything you want to say to me,” he said, “you must say it in the
study. You are the most beautiful, the most desirable thing I have
ever met in this world. ’
It took several frustrating moments, working at the protrusions of the carving
down the side of the bookshelves, tugging at leaves, pushing at flowers. For a moment or two Gerald stood in the total silence of amazement, his pistol
up and pointing, aware that Hilary was likewise stunned, standing with halfdrawn sword. All the talk in the
world would not describe Ruth. “Listen! There was a Meysey Hill in Paris, an American
railway millionaire. She went about in a negligent November London that had become very
dark and foggy and greasy and forbidding indeed, and tried to find that modest
but independent employment she had so rashly assumed.
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