“I don’t see,” gasped Ann Veronica, “why parents and children. At any rate, here I am, and here I shall be, twenty thousand feet above all your poison-reeking cities, up where God’s wind comes fresh from heaven, very near indeed to the untrodden snows. ’ ‘Oh, have you?’ grunted Gerald, surprising in himself a surge of some odd emotion at these words. ’ ‘Was. . ” “H’m!” said Ann Veronica, and shook her head. My janizaries are without. Then suddenly he seized a new preparation bottle that stood upon his table and contained the better part of a week’s work—a displayed dissection of a snail, beautifully done—and hurled it across the room, to smash resoundingly upon the cemented floor under the bookcase; then, without either haste or pause, he swept his arm along a shelf of re-agents and sent them to mingle with the debris on the floor. He was just as much a greater master than any other I ever saw, as he was a greater judge of time and measure. Gerald, whose French was adequate from his military service abroad, was able to respond suitably to such remarks as the ladies addressed to him, but was less exercised by their fashionable dress than their decidedly careworn appearance. And when I ask you why it is you do so, you have no answer. The gong will go at seven-thirty. But be very careful not to let him know. It was a night well-fitted to their enterprise, calm, still, and profoundly dark.
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