She wanted to stay where she was; but tears were dangerous; the
more she wept, the weaker she would become defensively. . She went on from street to street, and all the glory of London had
departed. “I won’t go home,” she said; “I won’t!” and she evaded the clutch of the
fatherly policeman and tried to thrust herself past him in the direction of that big
portal. "
"Alice in Wonderland!" cried Prudence, perhaps a little enviously. . 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. Not that there had ever been any hope of that. "
"You want another drubbing, I perceive," said Thames, frowning. ‘Then it is that you will have pity? Here we have
come, we poor, for aid. "
"Holloa! my hearty!" cried Ben, starting to his feet. ‘You are rude, and stupide, and
altogether a person with whom I do not wish to speak. ‘But this Englishwoman,’ asked the man Valade, his puzzlement plain to see,
‘who was she?’
The question irritated Charvill.
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