”
So they went this time to the Rococo, in Germain Street, and up-stairs to a
landing upon which stood a bald-headed waiter with whiskers like a French
admiral and discretion beyond all limits in his manner. ‘And I suppose I shall be obliged to endure
another nonsensical tale about your husband. Wood had the
advantage of her husband in point of years, being on the sunny side of forty,—a
period pronounced by competent judges to be the most fascinating, and, at the
same time, most critical epoch of woman's existence,—whereas, he was on the
shady side of fifty,—a term of life not generally conceived to have any special
recommendation in female eyes. It was such an
unexpected stroke of fortune. There were two school-mistresses, one of whom—Miss Klegg—might have
been a first cousin to Miss Miniver, she had so many Miniver traits; there was a
preoccupied girl whose name Ann Veronica never learned, but who worked
remarkably well; and Miss Garvice, who began by attracting her very greatly—
she moved so beautifully—and ended by giving her the impression that moving
beautifully was the beginning and end of her being. And, also, she wanted to borrow that money. The nuns had no regard for the sensibilities of a “lady” and expected Melusine—
for it was her allotted task—to clean and tend the soldier’s wounds even when
they festered. He dashed against the screen door before she could catch him and made the
veranda. ‘I thought—I thought I saw my—my
husband. In the general survey of the prison, taken in the preceding chapter, but little was
said of the Lodge. The bungalows and stores were built of heavy bamboo and gum-wood; sprawly,
one-storied affairs; for the typhoon was no stranger in these waters.
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