And most of the others she had met had, she felt, the same
steadfastness. She was an indignant queen, no doubt she was
alarmed and disgusted within limits; but she was highly excited, and there was
something, some low adventurous strain in her being, some element, subtle at
least if base, going about the rioting ways and crowded insurgent meeting-places
of her mind declaring that the whole affair was after all—they are the only words
that express it—a very great lark indeed. Have you brought me a message from my
sister? I understood, I believe, that she was seeing you last night. “There are some people,” he said at last, “who seem fated to carry on their
shoulders the burdens of other people. He would
teach her all he knew of life so that if the Hand should ever reach his shoulder,
she would be able to defend herself. She felt the warm nearness of his. ”
There was silence between them. Between herself and yonder
evil mind she had the strongest buckler God could give—love. ‘I can answer that. Chapter XXII
AN OLD FOOL
Lady Ferringhall made room for him on the sofa by her side. “Come, daddy,” said Ann Veronica, following her husband and Miss Stanley;
and in the fulness of her heart she gave a friendly squeeze to the parental arm. E. ’
‘Will you indeed? Truly?’
His smile held so much tenderness, she was tempted to surrender at once. She heard him crash against it, and turned the key in the lock. But he was now too deeply moved to trace a certain
unsatisfactoriness to its source in a mixture of metaphors.
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