And you see, I don’t turn my back,
and I am looking at you and thinking about you from top to toe. She hesitated about her name, and, being prompted, gave
it at last as Ann Veronica Smith, 107A, Chancery Lane. A pane of glass was shivered by each stone. “I tell you it was a lie!” he shouted wildly. Rows of roasted duck, brilliantly varnished; luscious vegetables, which
she had been warned against; baskets of melon seed and water-chestnuts; men
working in teak and blackwood; fan makers and jade cutters; eggs preserved in
what appeared to her as petrified muck; bird's nests and shark fins. ”
“I’ve had a biological training. They were things I had meant very much to talk to you about, so that I
went home vexed and disappointed, and only relieved myself a little by writing a
few verses. Do you live here?"
"Not exactly," answered the carpenter. He spoke English with astonishing facility and
with a purity which often embarrassed his tourists. It was then
that the young man entered his thought with some permanency: because there
was no apparent reason for his joining the tour, since from the beginning he had
shown no interest in anything. All through the love music of the second act, until the hunting horns of Mark
break in upon the dream, Ann Veronica’s consciousness was flooded with the
perception of a man close beside her, preparing some new thing to say to her,
preparing, perhaps, to touch her, stretching hungry invisible tentacles about her. And I
wish you all the happiness in the world.
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