He
had had five children at irregular intervals, of whom Ann Veronica was the
youngest, so that as a parent he came to her perhaps a little practised and jaded
and inattentive; and he called her his “little Vee,” and patted her unexpectedly
and disconcertingly, and treated her promiscuously as of any age between eleven
and eight-and-twenty. They went to the Zoological
Gardens together one Saturday to see for themselves a point of morphological
interest about the toucan’s bill—that friendly and entertaining bird—and they
spent the rest of the afternoon walking about and elaborating in general terms
this theme and the superiority of intellectual fellowship to all merely passionate
relationships. "Speak, or I fire!"
"Well, if you will have it, it's Sir Rowland Trenchard. But it don't much matter—though he's a devilish shrewd fellow, and might have
helped me out of a difficulty, had any occurred. Voilà tout. An iron fillet
secured the socket of the bolt and the box of the lock to the main post of the
doorway. ’
‘Of Leonardo? Yes, I will tell you.
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