‘Will you—what was it?—“blow off his head”?’
Melusine eyed her, a little uncertain. “We will see that he never annoys you. . Would she ever find it?
Sighing, she opened the door to the next room, and drew back the drapes. Several men and women were piled there like wood, dead,
horribly gored. Bulging out more in the
middle than at the two extremities, it resembled an enormous cask set on its end,
—a sort of Heidelberg tun on a large scale,—and this resemblance was increased
by the small circular aperture—it hardly deserved to be called a door—pierced,
like the bung-hole of a barrell, through the side of the structure, at some distance
from the ground, and approached by a flight of wooden steps. She looked into his eyes, truly noticing
their gray color for the first time. “Go on!”
“People talked to you in Paris about us,” she continued, “about Anna the
virtuous and Annabel the rake. Finally she decided that even for an hotel she must look round, and that
meanwhile she would “book” her luggage at Waterloo. ”
“Delusion!” he muttered, glaring at her. “I
don’t mind, of course, your seeing her sometimes, still there are differences—
differences in social atmospheres. And why, after
all, should she not borrow money from Ramage?
It was so true what he said; middle-class people WERE ridiculously
squeamish about money. An old woman took her in. The face that looked down upon Ann Veronica was full of amiable intention.
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