Even two Cabinet Ministers took to their heels, grinning insincerely. (Fifteen pounds! And she wanted forty!)
Part 4
It was, perhaps, the natural consequence of a long and tiring and exciting day
that Ann Veronica should pass a broken and distressful night, a night in which
the noble and self-subduing resolutions of Canongate displayed themselves for
the first time in an atmosphere of almost lurid dismay. Her hair had begun to grow back, it
now swept to her shoulders. ‘You have no idea how dull
the militia is compared to the Army. ’ Tears glistened in her eyes. The stores, the drying bins,
McClintock's bungalows and the native huts sprawled around an exquisite
landlocked lagoon. “What is the good of pretending?” she said. She laughed a little contemptuously. “One has to live and learn,” she remarked, with a passable imitation of her
father’s manner.
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