And no ill-chances. She did not open
the Bible but laid it on the edge of the bed, knelt and rested her forehead upon
the worn leather cover. Too close, he
reasoned, for safety. Happily they had no one else to wait for, and it heartened her mightily to think
that she had ordered the promptest possible service of the dinner. ”
Anna’s demeanour was still imperturbable, her marble pallor untinged by the
slightest flush of colour. The small bed’s hospital corners had been put into
disarray by Michelle’s crying fit. Was it that the struggle of things to survive produced as a sort of necessary byproduct these intense preferences and appreciations, or was it that some mystical
outer thing, some great force, drove life beautyward, even in spite of expediency,
regardless of survival value and all the manifest discretions of life? She went to
Capes with that riddle and put it to him very carefully and clearly, and he talked
well—he always talked at some length when she took a difficulty to him—and
sent her to a various literature upon the markings of butterflies, the
incomprehensible elaboration and splendor of birds of Paradise and hummingbirds’ plumes, the patterning of tigers, and a leopard’s spots. “You must send for the police at once, you know. ”
“What did you say?”
“I said, ‘My dear Veronica! how can you think of such things?’”
“And then?”
“She had two more cups of tea and some cake, and told me of her walk. "My son," she murmured, wringing her hands piteously—, "my son the
companion of thieves! My son in Jonathan Wild's power! It cannot be. ”
“No,” he said, and tried again: “but I must tell you quite definitely that I feel it
to be my duty to forbid any such exploit. Suddenly a half stifled exclamation broke from Anna’s
lips.
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