"Whatever you like, Hoddy," she agreed, wiping the sweat from her forehead. The cage at Willesden was, and is—for it is still standing—a small round
building about eight feet high, with a pointed tiled roof, to which a number of
boards, inscribed with the names of the parish officers, and charged with a
multitude of admonitory notices to vagrants and other disorderly persons, are
attached. He had absorbed her in a single glance, and was
now defining her as he worked. Winifred, you are deceived in me. Darkness closed in on them as the officers stepped inside the musty interior. ‘I’m following a scent. ’
‘You have seen him? Exactement. ’ She threw a melting
look at Roding. These interests her world
promptly, through the agency of schoolmistresses, older school-mates, her aunt,
and a number of other responsible and authoritative people, assured her she must
on no account think about. She has given herself up to social work. At table he carved in a
gloomy but resolute manner. His face darkened. Quarter-staves, bludgeons,
brown-bills, lanterns, swords, and sconces were alike shivered; and, to judge
from the sullied state of their habiliments, the claret must have been tapped
pretty freely. Her family are solid West End people, Kensington people. Buried under various ancestral sixteenths, smothered under
modern thought, liberty of action and bewildering variety of flesh-pots, it was
still alive to the extent that it needed only his present state to resuscitate it in all
its peculiar force.
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