He never cries nor frets, as children generally do, but lies at my bosom, or on my knee, as quiet and as gentle as you see him now. The first set of occupations seemed to her to be altogether too domestic and restricted; for the latter she was dreadfully handicapped by her want of experience. But Michelle’s heart seemed to grow fonder to the subject proportionally to Lucy’s avoidance of it. Then a third secretarial opening occurred and renewed her hopes again: a position as amanuensis—with which some of the lighter duties of a nurse were combined— to an infirm gentleman of means living at Twickenham, and engaged upon a great literary research to prove that the “Faery Queen” was really a treatise upon molecular chemistry written in a peculiar and picturesquely handled cipher. “Ann Veronica,” he said. “Nothing can cheer me,” he said, “except champagne. The young lady saw the change, and almost snorted. She had tried him as a Crusader, in which guise he seemed plausible but heavy—“There IS something heavy about him; I wonder if it’s his mustache?”—and as a Hussar, which made him preposterous, and as a Black Brunswicker, which was better, and as an Arab sheik. He had a quick, shrewd, merry eye, and a look in which duplicity was agreeably veiled by good humour. “Has she ever thought of buying a pair of foam earplugs?” Lucy asked. She began to exercise those lures which were bred in her bone—the bones of all women. You know what? I’m going to make a surprise announcement at the concert tonight, but I wanted to give you the heads up.
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