She had been built
for canvas and oil-lamps, and this new thingumajig that kept her nose snoring at
eight knots when normally she was able to boil along at ten, and these
unblinking things they called lamps (that neither smoked nor smelled), irked and
threatened to ruin her temper. ‘What do you say of these troops?’
‘You see, we’re militia. “I
suppose there’s no way of getting a decent income—independently. ’
‘Woof!’ uttered the sergeant, jumping back. In addition to my public salary I have a certain
private property and further expectations through my aunt, so that I can offer you
a life of wide and generous refinement, travel, books, discussion, and easy
relations with a circle of clever and brilliant and thoughtful people with whom
my literary work has brought me into contact, and of which, seeing me only as
you have done alone in Morningside Park, you can have no idea. She had even played in an opera by Verdi once, but
had to dress as a boy to do it. ‘How she pouted, and tried to make out that she had been imposed upon.
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