“Whither away?” he said, very distinctly in a curiously wheedling voice. Kneebone, his impertinence was copied to the letter by Solomon. What a contrast did the lovely scene she now gazed upon present to the squalid
neighbourhood she had recently quitted! On all sides, expanded prospects of
country the most exquisite and most varied. He was not sure that the boy had put himself beyond
the pale; merely, the boy's actions pointed that way. Why did he imagine she was
making this journey to England? She feigned interest. “You are not boring me,” she said, “but I would rather talk of something else. Alas! that the punishment of his offences should fall on her head. Why
wasn't the world full of love, when love made happiness? Why did people hide
their natural kindliness as if it were something shameful? Why shouldn't people
say what they thought and act as they were inclined? Why all this pother about
what one's neighbour thought, when this pother was not energized by any good
will? Why was truth avoided as the plague? Why did this young man have one
name on the hotel register and another on his lips? Why was she bothering about
him at all? Why should there be this inexplicable compassion, when the normal
sensation should have been repellance? Sidney Carton. Why did he
care?
“I could never marry a girl who’s not a virgin. At the back of her mind
there seemed always one irrelevant qualifying spectator whose presence she
sought to disregard. ’
‘Your groom? What for?’
‘Get him to wait outside. "I beg your pardon!… A bit rocky this morning…. ” He spoke a little
nervously. As this seemed insufficient, after a lapse of five
minutes, he added another hundred weight.
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