‘Well?’ she said. She had looked up from her seat at the small round table in the centre of the parlour which, together with the wooden armchairs beside the small fireplace, and a sideboard next the single casement, was all the furniture the place afforded. Her aunt returned before the packing was done, and Ann Veronica lunched with an uneasy sense of bag and hold-all packed up-stairs and inadequately hidden from chance intruders by the valance of the bed. Peste, but everything had become difficult. Gives you a right to hang on to the old man until he busts—practically. He stopped abruptly. In those revolutionary times one had to be prepared. Then he slapped his hand on his desk and looked up with the air of a man struck by a brilliant idea. “There’s no end of things I’d like to talk over with you. Gifts came from Florence: rubies and emeralds, a beautiful statue of Santa Maria for their garden grotto, a gorgeous silk tapestry of a hunting scene that alone made the price of her dowry look paltry. Yet, here she was, in the ancient Chinese city, weaving in and out of the narrow streets some scarcely wide enough for two men to walk abreast, streets that boiled and eddied with yellow human beings, who worshipped strange gods, ate strange foods, and diffused strange suffocating smells. ’ She thrust him out of the room and made for the stairs. .
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