Chapter XXX
SIR JOHN’S NECKTIE
Sir John, in a quiet dark travelling suit, was sitting in a pokey little room writing
letters. She got up, drew up her blind, and stared out of window at a dawn-cold
vision of chimneys for a time, and then went and sat on the edge of her bed. When he comes he will do that raid of the pantechnicons
the justice it deserves; he will picture the orderly evening scene about the
Imperial Legislature in convincing detail, the coming and going of cabs and
motor-cabs and broughams through the chill, damp evening into New Palace
Yard, the reinforced but untroubled and unsuspecting police about the entries of
those great buildings whose square and panelled Victorian Gothic streams up
from the glare of the lamps into the murkiness of the night; Big Ben shining
overhead, an unassailable beacon, and the incidental traffic of Westminster, cabs,
carts, and glowing omnibuses going to and from the bridge. ‘Don’t put me at the necessity of
marrying the abominable little wretch. Ann Veronica was
carried off her intellectual and critical feet by it altogether, and applauded and
uttered cries that subsequent reflection failed to endorse. For if Gerald had indeed gone to see
this Prudence, it was better to wait for his report. " Here she began to
blubber loudly for sympathy. Nevertheless, Sir
John had the look of a man who was enjoying himself. Ruth was inflammable; she would always be flaring up swiftly, in pity, in
tenderness, in anger; she would always be answering impulses, without seeking
to weigh or to analyse them. The Dawn
Pearl. The stranger looked at him as if strongly disposed to chastise his impertinence. “Why not? They tell me that London is impossible till after ten, and I want my
first impressions to be favourable. “Don’t worry, Julian. A fortnight passed, then a month.
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