Instead, she laughed,
laughed with lips and eyes, laughed till the tears ran down her cheeks. “Her ladyship dined at home,” the man answered. "Why, of hanging the fellow who acts as his jackal; one Blake, or Blueskin, I
think he's called. Three times he uttered a phrase:
"A djinn in a blue-serge coat!"
And each time he would follow it with a chuckle—the chuckle of a soul in
damnation. Before retracing his steps, however, he allowed his gaze to range
over the vast and beautiful prospect spread out beneath him, which is now
hidden, from the traveller's view by the high walls of the General Cemetery, and
can, consequently, only be commanded from the interior of that attractive place
of burial,—and which, before it was intersected by canals and railroads, and
portioned out into hippodromes, was exquisite indeed. The car ride to the new movie theater, a multiplex,
was brief and harrowing. Fortescue had not much ability to keep her sister, and a
little while after her mother’s death Ann Veronica met Gwen suddenly on the
staircase coming from her father’s study, shockingly dingy in dusty mourning
and tearful and resentful, and after that Gwen receded from the Morningside
Park world, and not even the begging letters and distressful communications that
her father and aunt received, but only a vague intimation of dreadfulness, a
leakage of incidental comment, flashes of paternal anger at “that blackguard,”
came to Ann Veronica’s ears. It
would have been a crisis anyhow, but it was complicated in Ann Veronica’s mind
by the fact that a letter lay on the breakfast-table from Mr. I'm not
interested in him. ’
‘Don’t be a fool, woman,’ snapped Charvill, thrusting himself further into the
room. “And what is it all about, Veronica?” he asked, with a
deliberate note of irony, looking at her a little quizzically over his glasses. She hung about his chair, followed
him to the door, touched his sleeve timidly, all the while striving to pronounce
the words which refused to rise to her tongue. “Every one. She stood, as it were, directed doorward, with
her eyes watching every movement, listening to him, repelled by him and yet
dimly understanding.
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