At Boulogne they took train to Basle; next morning they breakfasted together
in the buffet of that station, and thence they caught the Interlaken express, and so
went by way of Spies to Frutigen. Parbleu, but
she was a fool. Crocodile Tears. One glance swept across the place
and it was immediately apparent that Pottiswick had not, this time, been
mistaken. ”
“But there is not a shadow of evidence against you,” he objected. "He acts queerly, too. ”
Even in the glamour of Miss Brett’s assurance it seemed to Ann Veronica that
this was, after all, no more than the gospel of Miss Miniver with a new set of
resonances. Simply because they
are hardened by—by bestiality, and poisoned by the juices of meat slain in anger
and fermented drinks—fancy! drinks that have been swarmed in by thousands
and thousands of horrible little bacteria!”
“It’s yeast,” said Ann Veronica—“a vegetable. They were the
same. But he had always felt (he had never allowed himself to think of it) that the
promptitude of their family was a little indelicate of her, and in a sense an
intrusion. Knowing the South
Seas from hearsay and by travel, he knew something of that inertia which
blunted the fineness, innate and acquired, of white men and women, the eternal
warfare against indifference and slovenliness. Then he went on:
“—and, indeed, to most of the established things in life is, frankly,
unsatisfactory.
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