Melusine started
back, blinking. An avid reader in many genres, I love to share books that have given
me much pleasure. “I am under police surveillance,” she said. ” He would follow with a long discourse
on biology, uninvited. "
There was a brief, breathless pause. Passing at a glance over the whole of the intervening period; leaving in the
words of the poet,
—The growth untried
Of that wide gap—
we shall resume our narrative at the beginning of June, 1715. “I’m d——d if I understand this,” he said thoughtfully. As a net result she had come to think of all married people much
as one thinks of insects that have lost their wings, and of her sisters as new
hatched creatures who had scarcely for a moment had wings. A wide terrace then led to large iron gates,' over which were
placed the two celebrated figures of Raving and Melancholy Madness, executed
by the elder Cibber, and commemorated by Pope in the Dunciad, in the wellknown lines:—
"Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne,
And laughs to think Monroe would take her down,
Where, o'er the gates, by his famed father's hand,
Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand. And put ‘em in little books for remembrance.
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