‘Very well,’ he said, lowering his own weapon. ”
Teddy made some confused noise, a thoracic street row; some remark was
assassinated by a rival in his throat and buried hastily under a cough. Both ladies were on easy and friendly terms with
all that was best in Morningside Park society; they had an afternoon once a
month that was quite well attended, they sometimes gave musical evenings, they
dined out and gave a finish to people’s dinners, they had a full-sized croquet
lawn and tennis beyond, and understood the art of bringing people together. ’
***
Martha sniffed dolefully, scrubbing at her reddened eyes with a large square of
damp linen. The odour of coconut prevailed, delicately but abidingly; for, save for
the occasioned pleasure junket, The Tigress was a copra carrier, shell and fibre. modern. What you would look upon as immorality
is here merely an established custom, three thousand years older than
Christianity, accepted with no more ado than that which would accompany you
should you become a clerk in a shop. Thieves and pickpockets are his constant
companions. ”
He stood up with his legs parted in an inverted “V”,
puffing up, trying to make himself look bigger. Against the sinister, the threatening, monstrous inhumanity of the
limitless city, there was nothing now but this supreme, ugly fact of a pursuit—
the pursuit of the undesired, persistent male.
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