”
He stepped past her to the door and closed it. They are things faint and slight in themselves, as physical facts, but
they are like the detonator of a bomb: they let loose the explosive. ”
It came upon him like a flash. Do you see
the time?”
“I may come and see you?” Ennison asked, as his hand touched hers. Her eyes were
perhaps a little brighter than usual, the firelight played about her hair, there
seemed to him to be a sudden softening of the straight firm mouth. “How dare you!”
They were both astonished at the other’s strength. For if Gerald had indeed gone to see
this Prudence, it was better to wait for his report. She could not be more than twenty; and though want and other
suffering had done the work of time, had wasted her frame, and robbed her
cheek of its bloom and roundness, they had not extinguished the lustre of her
eyes, nor thinned her raven hair. Miss Mary to the life, I said, and so she is. Like the flaws of an old marble. One night she apparently fell asleep. A dry cough's the trumpeter of
death. Ann Veronica had come to the Imperial College obsessed by the great figure
of Russell, by the part he had played in the Darwinian controversies, and by the
resolute effect of the grim-lipped, yellow, leonine face beneath the mane of
silvery hair.
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