This is simply a chapter of coincidences. Then she
dropped the curtain and stepped back into the room. His name was
Marvel, and his avocation, which was as repulsive as his looks, was that of
public executioner. His spirits
revived, and encouraging himself with the idea that the present impediment,
though the greatest, was the last, he set himself seriously to consider how it
might best be overcome. ’
‘They wear a uniform, do they not? They march and fight with swords and
shoot with guns, no?’
‘Well, yes,
miss. "
"Oh, it's a part of the game," said McClintock. What had she so
nearly said? She had almost spoken a name—and quickly withdrawn it. Running his hand hastily over it, he was startled to find it one
complicated mass of bolts and bars. “The plain common-sense of the case,” he said, “is that we can’t possibly be
lovers in the ordinary sense. Shari laughed hysterically and was
promptly shushed by Larry from the next room. ”
Chapter XIV
“THIS IS MY WIFE”
Anna, notwithstanding her momentary fright in the middle of the day, was in
high spirits. It is in the lower cupboard. She
heard the television blaring away. It seemed to her the last desperate attack upon the universe that would not
let her live as she desired to live, that penned her in and controlled her and
directed her and disapproved of her, the same invincible wrappering, the same
leaden tyranny of a universe that she had vowed to overcome after that
memorable conflict with her father at Morningside Park. But this only incensed the assailing party the more.
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