‘You would like? And do you imagine that I will tell
you?’
‘Won’t you?’
‘No, a thousand times. Your
father is very angry, and will not have her name mentioned in his hearing. As Leonardo had himself
pronounced, who better than a mountebank to teach of the perils awaiting the
unwary? Who better than a wastrel to demonstrate the worth of thrift? And who
could instruct better in the matter of affections than one who had thrown them
away?
‘If he had loved me,’ she said, in the flat tone she had learned to use to conceal
her vulnerable heart, ‘he would have left me at Remenham House to live a life of
an English lady. "So, you're admiring my cabinet, Sir Rowland," he remarked, with a sinister
smile; "it is generally admired; and, sometimes by parties who afterwards
contribute to the collection themselves,—ha! ha! This skull," he added, pointing
to a fragment of mortality in the case beside them, "once belonged to Tom
Sheppard, the father of the lad I spoke of just now. I'm not
particular what or where. Suddenly she had become afraid. There is no poison that would affect her. ’
She tried to shake his hands off her wrists, but Gerald held them fast and
tutted at her. They watched the
chimpanzees in the new apes’ house, and admired the gentle humanity of their
eyes—“so much more human than human beings”—and they watched the Agile
Gibbon in the next apartment doing wonderful leaps and aerial somersaults. 23
She had always considered herself a simple wool
maker’s daughter, but she began to realize that by
marrying Gianfrancesco she had unwittingly gained
entrance to a separate world.
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