If not, I'll take a cheerful glass with you at the City of Oxford, on my way to
Tyburn. The windows
were grated, the doors barred; each room had the name as well as the appearance
of a cell; and the very porter who stood at the gate, habited like a jailer, with his
huge bunch of keys at his girdle, his forbidding countenance and surly
demeanour seemed to be borrowed from Newgate. Sheppard, faintly. She found herself asking more and more curiously, “Why, on the principle
of the survival of the fittest, have I any sense of beauty at all?” That enabled her
to go on thinking about beauty when it seemed to her right that she should be
thinking about biology. When he comes he will do that raid of the pantechnicons
the justice it deserves; he will picture the orderly evening scene about the
Imperial Legislature in convincing detail, the coming and going of cabs and
motor-cabs and broughams through the chill, damp evening into New Palace
Yard, the reinforced but untroubled and unsuspecting police about the entries of
those great buildings whose square and panelled Victorian Gothic streams up
from the glare of the lamps into the murkiness of the night; Big Ben shining
overhead, an unassailable beacon, and the incidental traffic of Westminster, cabs,
carts, and glowing omnibuses going to and from the bridge. Before his departure, he gave his assistant a glove. The young man had knocked over the siphon. ‘What do you want with me? Why did you catch me?’
‘You intrigue me,’ he told her frankly. ‘And that Suzanne, the
sister of my cousin the vicomte, must choose between Monsieur Charvill and her
brother. An ordinary type, of course—”
Mrs.
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