”
“You are really going on the stage, then?” he said slowly. "Saved!"
"Ay, ay, it's all bob, my covey! You're safe enough, that's certain!" responded the
Minters, baying, yelping, leaping, and howling around him like a pack of hounds
when the huntsman is beating cover; "but, where are the lurchers?"
"Who?" asked Wood. He went in there, and he was in there for a good half hour. Lucy snatched it up and put it in
her pack. ”
They were lingering over their dessert. When he comes he will do that raid of the pantechnicons
the justice it deserves; he will picture the orderly evening scene about the
Imperial Legislature in convincing detail, the coming and going of cabs and
motor-cabs and broughams through the chill, damp evening into New Palace
Yard, the reinforced but untroubled and unsuspecting police about the entries of
those great buildings whose square and panelled Victorian Gothic streams up
from the glare of the lamps into the murkiness of the night; Big Ben shining
overhead, an unassailable beacon, and the incidental traffic of Westminster, cabs,
carts, and glowing omnibuses going to and from the bridge. And this was an adventure of
which he had dreamed from boyhood: aboard a windjammer on the South Seas. "It's a
mysterious transaction altogether. We know London, and you are a stranger here. ‘He’s already spoken for,
Melusine. Now you will learn the result. Promise me one thing before I leave you. I step on my neighbour's feet, return and
apologize because my acquired conscience orders me to do so; whereas you
might pass on without caring if your neighbour hopped about on one foot.
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