There had been fusses and scenes dimly apprehended through half-open doors. “Will you come this way,” she said, “into the drawing-room? There is no one
there just now. ”
“You’ll make me look a fool before all my friends. The fee is
owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he
has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the
Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Only a son’s another story. Can it ever be so good again?”
Ann Veronica put out a firm hand and squeezed his arm. . What a pity!
For all her ignorance of material things—the human inventions which served the
physical comforts of man—how much she knew about man himself! She had
seen him bereft of all those spiritual props which permit man to walk on two feet
instead of four—broken, without resilience. “But we only aid the beccamorti by giving them our
business! I refuse to pay exorbitant prices for wood
coffins and burial for lesser servants who could just as
easily be dragged into the pit! Let the dead bury the
dead!”
“You fool! It is the gross lack of sanitation you speak
of that has brought us to this very end. ‘If you did not want me to talk of it,’ she told him with characteristic
insouciance, ‘you should not have mentioned the matter to me. The cloth was removed, and
Wood, drawing the table as near the window as possible—for it was getting dusk
—put on his spectacles, and opened that sacred volume from which the best
consolation in affliction is derived, and left the lovers—for such they may now
be fairly termed—to their own conversation. Look at these walls. ”
“It isn’t necessary,” they both declared breathlessly. A nine days’
wonder is soon forgotten.
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