The villain has enjoyed his security too long. Ann
Veronica had had some training at the Tredgold College in disentangling threads
from confused statements, and she had a curious persuasion that in all this fluent
muddle there was something—something real, something that signified. And now you are
acting the cuckold, because I do not wish to waste my
seed in your barren womb?\"
She was too devastated to answer him. So, one day, because God was wroth, her mother ran away
with a blackguard, and died in the gutter, miserably. ’
‘That’s odd. Red velvet curtains
rustled under dim lights as the door shut with a heavy
snap. ”
“I like the mystical way,” she said. "I'll tell you," answered Jonathan, sternly. As she talked she made weak
little gestures with her hands, and she thrust her face forward from her bent
shoulders; and she peered sometimes at Ann Veronica and sometimes at a
photograph of the Axenstrasse, near Fluelen, that hung upon the wall. Another horn now resounded from the further extremity of the thoroughfare; this
was answered by a third; and presently a fourth, and more remote blast, took up
the note of alarm. "And so we're to be
summoned from our beds and snug firesides, because a kid happens to squall,
eh? By the soul of my grandmother, but this is too good!"
"Do you intend to claim the privileges of the Mint?" said Jonathan, calmly
pursuing his interrogations amid the uproar. "You mistake,—you are mine. So many things she saw that her interest stumbled rather than leaped from object
to object.
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