Someone had thoughtfully wrapped a bit of tissue
paper round the electric bulb. ” She turned
abruptly at right angles to the path they followed. Even on cool days the gardens were colorful and
bright, with orange trees emanating sweetness and
bumblebees drunkenly weaving from flower to flower. Some of the meetings are wonderful! Such earnest, beautiful women! Such deepbrowed men!. All human food tasted
equally dead and loathsome to her, whether it was prime
steak or cheap hamburger. Please tell me what your terms are. Part 2
Now, while Ann Veronica was taking these soundings in the industrial sea,
and measuring herself against the world as it is, she was also making extensive
explorations among the ideas and attitudes of a number of human beings who
seemed to be largely concerned with the world as it ought to be. She waited expectantly. The ripple of the water against the boat, as its keel cleaves
through the stream—the darkling current hurrying by—the indistinctly-seen
craft, of all forms and all sizes, hovering around, and making their way in ghostlike silence, or warning each other of their approach by cries, that, heard from
afar, have something doleful in their note—the solemn shadows cast by the
bridges—the deeper gloom of the echoing arches—the lights glimmering from
the banks—the red reflection thrown upon the waves by a fire kindled on some
stationary barge—the tall and fantastic shapes of the houses, as discerned
through the obscurity;—these, and other sights and sounds of the same character,
give a sombre colour to the thoughts of one who may choose to indulge in
meditation at such a time and in such a place.
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