”
“Nor I. All the rest is humbug and
delicacy. It would be the
wrappered world almost at its best. Except for one memorable school excursion to Paris, Ann Veronica had never
yet been outside England. The noise of a bolt came to Alderley’s ears. She owed the nun a
great deal, including her command of English, for no one else thought to ensure
she could speak her mother tongue. The girl wished that she had come afoot, despite the knowledge that she would
have suffered many inconveniences, accidental and intentional jostling,
insolence and ribald jest. He kissed
her neck, moving down to her breasts, trying to consume
her with passion. Quilt's manner, indeed, was that of a man endeavouring to muster up sufficient
resolution for the commission of some desperate crime. "I wouldn't force him for the world:
but if he don't tip the stivers, may I be cursed if he don't get a taste of the aqua
pompaginis. Queens and Kings, as
always, were made to be manipulated. There were two school-mistresses, one of whom—Miss Klegg—might have
been a first cousin to Miss Miniver, she had so many Miniver traits; there was a
preoccupied girl whose name Ann Veronica never learned, but who worked
remarkably well; and Miss Garvice, who began by attracting her very greatly—
she moved so beautifully—and ended by giving her the impression that moving
beautifully was the beginning and end of her being. And Ann Veronica walked
beside him, trying in vain to soften her heart to him by the thought of how she
had ill-used him, and all the time, as her feet and mind grew weary together,
rejoicing more and more that at the cost of this one interminable walk she
escaped the prospect of—what was it?—“Ten thousand days, ten thousand
nights” in his company. One of these, a
lady, evidently a confirmed invalid, and attired in deep mourning, reclined upon
a sort of couch, or easy chair, set on wheels, with her head supported by
cushions, and her feet resting upon a velvet footstool.
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