—'How so?' says I. Asking her way once or twice, she passed
along Fleet Street into the Strand, and crossed Trafalgar Square, into Piccadilly. Besides, those
things are deadly. “This party must be so boring for you. One trouble, however, shot its slanting bolts athwart the shining warmth of
that opening day and marred its perfection, and that was the thought of her
father. You should have known
better, you cannot die, so your body and your instinct will
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take over as your mind departs. You were afraid of me, afraid that I should have
been shocked, afraid of the scandal. ’
‘Yes, but I do not wish to have a mystery. She was conscious the
whole conversation of Michelle, trying to divine what the
girl was planning to do. Ann Veronica was much impressed by a mighty trying on and altering and
fussing about Alice’s “things”—Alice was being re-costumed from garret to
cellar, with a walking-dress and walking-boots to measure, and a bride’s costume
of the most ravishing description, and stockings and such like beyond the dreams
of avarice—and a constant and increasing dripping into the house of irrelevant
remarkable objects, such as—
Real lace bedspread;
Gilt travelling clock;
Ornamental pewter plaque;
Salad bowl (silver mounted) and servers;
Madgett’s “English Poets” (twelve volumes), bound purple morocco;
Etc.
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