It was as though he were personally
aggrieved. It became a sort of duel at last between them, and all the
others sat and listened—every one, that is, except the Alderman, who had got the
blond young man into a corner by the green-stained dresser with the aluminum
things, and was sitting with his back to every one else, holding one hand over his
mouth for greater privacy, and telling him, with an accent of confidential
admission, in whispers of the chronic struggle between the natural modesty and
general inoffensiveness of the Borough Council and the social evil in
Marylebone. No good at all. “It’s a new phase in the life history,” he remarked. She walked with long swinging steps, scorning the thought of buses or the tube. “But—your people!” she gasped. "
Jonathan made no answer, but motioned the partners to take him away. A moment before he
had been a strong man, she had been in his power, a poor helpless thing.
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