As Leonardo had himself
pronounced, who better than a mountebank to teach of the perils awaiting the
unwary? Who better than a wastrel to demonstrate the worth of thrift? And who
could instruct better in the matter of affections than one who had thrown them
away?
‘If he had loved me,’ she said, in the flat tone she had learned to use to conceal
her vulnerable heart, ‘he would have left me at Remenham House to live a life of
an English lady. Much to her annoyance, therefore, Winifred was left alone with the woollendraper, who following up a maxim of his own, "that nothing was gained by too
much bashfulness," determined to profit by the opportunity. ”
“I’m going on working for my degree. I can’t. But, let's see the prisoner. “I heard nothing,” he declared, “and my ears are good. It looked as if it had taken its
world for granted and prospered on that assumption—a world in which children
were trained to obey their elders and the wills of women over-ruled as a matter
of course. "I call this ere crib the Little-Ease,
arter the runaway prentices' cells in Guildhall. I
didn’t understand before that letter. He spent a good deal more money
and time than he could afford upon the little room at the top of the house, in
producing new lapidary apparatus and new microscopic accessories and in
rubbing down slices of rock to a transparent thinness and mounting them in a
beautiful and dignified manner. The sky was cloudless, effulgent blue. It may be instinctive; it may be that children vaguely realize that at the end
of all wedding journeys is disillusion. A film of dust lay upon it; the ink marks were ancient.
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