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THE MANOR, 1349
They moved to the country manor in the autumn of
1349, when plague was still raging through the city. Hitherto you’ve seen only my easy, kindly side. She was aware of the body of the court, of clerks seated at a black
table littered with papers, of policemen standing about stiffly with expressions of
conscious integrity, and a murmuring background of the heads and shoulders of
spectators close behind her. He
devoured her with his eyes too, his shyness not able to
disguise his furtive glances at the curvy outline of her
breast against the imitation silk, his memory still
exquisitely tortured by her movements in the miniskirt. ”
“Couldn’t I make a treaty?”
Ann Veronica thought, and could not see any possible treaty that would leave
it open for her to have quasi-surreptitious dinners with Ramage or go on walking
round the London squares discussing Socialism with Miss Miniver toward the
small hours. ‘Do not think—’ he panted, ‘that I am finished—with you, mademoiselle. Except for one memorable school excursion to Paris, Ann Veronica had never
yet been outside England. ”
He came towards her with that in his face which filled her with blind terror. He ignored her protests in order to pursue some impressive line of his own.
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