There are boats on the lake and shady depths and
wildernesses of pine-wood. The walls were of immense
thickness; the small windows double-grated and unglazed; the fire-place was
without a grate; and a barrack-bed, divided into two compartments, occupied one
corner. Did she suppose him a possible pretender to her daughter’s
hand? The girl—Dorothée, if memory served—was clearly marriageable, but he
imagined most of these unhappy exiles were all but penniless. . Now then. That world of fine printed cambrics and escorted
maidens, of delicate secondary meanings and refined allusiveness, presented
itself to her imagination with the brightness of a lost paradise, as indeed for
many women it is a lost paradise. It isn't friendly as I thought it would be. Kneebone's,"
remarked Austin, rising to fasten the door. "
After all those former bitter failures, this cup was sweet, even if there was the
flavour of irony.
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