The garçon was tipped as he had never been tipped before in his life. "I knew how it would be," she cried, in the shrill voice peculiar to a shrew, "when you brought that worthless hussy's worthless brat into the house. “But if you had?” she said. 265 The madness crept around her like smoke under a door. That’s really why we do them sometimes rather well and get on. Even her memories of he who had frequented her life for the longest period of years were worn and fading. “Why can’t we propagate by sexless spores, as the ferns do? We restrict each other, we badger each other, friendship is poisoned and buried under it!. But I've not promised to stand by him yet; nor will I, unless he turns out an honest lad,—mind that. It was a precious thing, a beautiful cabochon—do you know what that is?” “What’s a cabochon?” “It’s a precious jewel that doesn’t have facets yet. She pointed hither and yon, smiled and shook her head. “You’re not a man for me—not one of a sex, I mean. 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. There must be something, one feels, in ideas that achieve persistently a successful resurrection. Inside was Anna, leaning a little forward to watch the passers-by, bright-eyed, full to the brim of the insatiable curiosity of youth—the desire to understand and appreciate this new world in which she found herself. Ralph.
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