”
“Pretty name. A wide terrace then led to large iron gates,' over which were
placed the two celebrated figures of Raving and Melancholy Madness, executed
by the elder Cibber, and commemorated by Pope in the Dunciad, in the wellknown lines:—
"Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne,
And laughs to think Monroe would take her down,
Where, o'er the gates, by his famed father's hand,
Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand. The thought caused him an odd kind of pang—of pity, naturally. Ann Veronica had come to the Imperial College obsessed by the great figure
of Russell, by the part he had played in the Darwinian controversies, and by the
resolute effect of the grim-lipped, yellow, leonine face beneath the mane of
silvery hair. ‘You’d do the same. "Now, tell me why they brought you here?"
"I came to see you, dear mother!" answered Jack. She roves the blue fields of the North, with
the clean North Wind on her lips and her blonde head jewelled with frost—
mocking valour and hardihood! Out of the West she comes, riding the great ships
and the endless steel ways that encompass the earth, and smoke comes with her
and the glare of furnace fires—commerce! From the East she brings strange
words upon her tongue and strange raiment upon her shoulders and the perfume
of myrrh—antiquity! But oh! when she springs from the South, her rosy feet
trailing the lotus, ripe lequats wreathing her head, in one hand the bright torch of
danger and in the other the golden apples of love, with her eyes full of sapphires
and her mouth full of pearls!
"With her eyes full of sapphires and her mouth full of pearls. "The worst house in the neighbourhood—the constant haunt of reprobates and
thieves," groaned Wood. “My dear Anna! As though I should think of depressing you with my long list of
misdeeds. She left for good after he fell
asleep. "
"From Mr.
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