"
"Egad, Jack," said Gay, "you should write your adventures. A garrison called to
arms at dead of night on the sudden approach of the enemy, could not have been
more expeditiously, or effectually aroused. He knew my name, and also that I
had been living in Paris, and a man doesn’t risk claiming a girl for his wife, as a
rule, for nothing. But in its stead—toward
morning—there appeared another idea which appealed to him as sublime,
appealed to the primitive conscience, to his artistic sense of the drama, to the
poet and the novelist in him. "
"At all events, let me send her away, my dear," supplicated the carpenter,
anxious to avert the impending storm. Work becomes distasteful; one thinks of holidays. "
Jack was about to comply with the request, when an unlooked-for interruption
occurred. She was practically an outcast, she had not even the ghost of a
plan as to her future, and she had something less than five pounds in her pocket. “Very well,” said Ann Veronica, with an air of concluding the discussion. “What a hideous
repertoire! If you are in earnest about wanting to earn money, why on earth don’t
you accept an engagement here?”
“An engagement?” she queried. For thirty years I have lived alone; but once upon a time
I lived among men. They watched the
chimpanzees in the new apes’ house, and admired the gentle humanity of their
eyes—“so much more human than human beings”—and they watched the Agile
Gibbon in the next apartment doing wonderful leaps and aerial somersaults. "But I am now coming to the point which most
concerns you. Who knows?—on the analogy of “Squiggles” she might come to call
him “Mangles!”
“I don’t think I can ever marry any one,” she said, and fell suddenly into
another set of considerations that perplexed her for a time. Her eardrums
were burning with the echoes of those hideous shouts.
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