After all, he had the means of setting
this tormenting doubt at rest. CHAPTER XXV
Spurlock pushed back his helmet and sat down in the white sand, buckling his
knees and folding his arms around them—pondering. If Ann Veronica could have put
words to that song they would have been, “Hot-blooded marriage or none!” but
she was far too indistinct in this matter to frame any words at all. "
"I begin to see that I shall have to learn English all over again. Trodger might not need his hair dressed, but the flagon of ale that each soldier
quaffed would be welcome—once his captain had departed, thought Roding
cynically. I’m sorry. I hate to see you spoil
yourself with guys like me. . 1. ’
***
It must have been fate, Gerald decided, near an hour later, staring intently at the
closed French windows on the raised alcove that led out to the terrace. Mesdames Thierry and Poussaint appeared delighted to meet Gerald, and he
was obliged to do the pretty to their daughters too. “Well, I have said what I had to say, stumblingly and badly, and baldly. Why
wasn't the world full of love, when love made happiness? Why did people hide
their natural kindliness as if it were something shameful? Why shouldn't people
say what they thought and act as they were inclined? Why all this pother about
what one's neighbour thought, when this pother was not energized by any good
will? Why was truth avoided as the plague? Why did this young man have one
name on the hotel register and another on his lips? Why was she bothering about
him at all? Why should there be this inexplicable compassion, when the normal
sensation should have been repellance? Sidney Carton.
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