“Of course, one lives
differently in Paris, but then—Paris is Paris. I
have made up my mind to insist upon moving from here into Park Lane, or one
of the Squares. . ”
“You will make me horribly conceited,” he answered. “I should make sure that he
doesn’t try to drive himself home. At least the sun would not be as bright, which was a
welcome reprieve from the mercilessly bright early
summer days which had invigorated every man, woman,
and child in the suburbs but were wearing Lucy down
into acute fatigue, along with her hunger. He was not addicted to
monologue, and the only audible comment he permitted himself at first upon a
universe that was evidently anything but satisfactory to him that afternoon, was
one compact and entirely unassigned “Damn!”
The word must have had some gratifying quality, because he repeated it. Marriage!—and no woman by to tell the child what it was! The shocks and
disillusions she would have to meet unsuspectingly—and bitterly. ”
Part 6
Capes lit things wonderfully for Ann Veronica all that afternoon, he was so
friendly, so palpably interested in her, and glad to have her back with him. He glanced up. I shall take to him as nat'ral as if he were my own flesh
and blood afore long. There is so little abandon, so little real joyousness. Tell her, that more than once, when about to
commit some desperate offence, I have been restrained by her gentle image. And then you can go home and think things over before we talk again. "
"Well, well, since you desire it, I'll say no more," returned Wood.
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