“It has been proved,” said Miss Miniver, and added, “by American professors. He was now almost driven to despair. But tell me one thing I don’t understand—tell me one thing: How can you help it by coming down into the battle and the mire? That’s the thing that concerns me. What she said is true. He’s a footman who works for the nuns and has taken up the cudgels on her behalf. It was a habit of his to talk to himself. “All your dreadful scientific things?” he said, with a smile that Miss Klegg thought extraordinarily kindly. ‘There’s no controlling you, is there?’ He held up his hands. ’ ‘How do you know?’ Lucilla repeated, almost as sceptical as her intended spouse. The day was unseasonably humid and dark, a thick fog having descended over manicured lawns. He was not addicted to monologue, and the only audible comment he permitted himself at first upon a universe that was evidently anything but satisfactory to him that afternoon, was one compact and entirely unassigned “Damn!” The word must have had some gratifying quality, because he repeated it. The windows were grated, the doors barred; each room had the name as well as the appearance of a cell; and the very porter who stood at the gate, habited like a jailer, with his huge bunch of keys at his girdle, his forbidding countenance and surly demeanour seemed to be borrowed from Newgate.
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