He
saluted awkwardly. “So tell me what happened, all of it! I saw roses!”
Shari exclaimed. . “The truth!” It was a moment of awkwardness between the two sisters
—a moment, too, charged with its own psychological interest, for there were
secrets between them which for many months had made their intercourse a
constrained and difficult thing. "My wife and daughter, Sir," said the carpenter, introducing them to his guest. "
"You are from America?"
"Yes. Were I a painter of subject pictures, I would exhaust all my skill in proportion
and perspective and atmosphere upon the august seat of empire, I would present
it gray and dignified and immense and respectable beyond any mere verbal
description, and then, in vivid black and very small, I would put in those
valiantly impertinent vans, squatting at the base of its altitudes and pouring out a
swift, straggling rush of ominous little black objects, minute figures of
determined women at war with the universe. “Now she’s all hat and ideas,” he said, with an air of humor. From beginning to end it was first-hand stuff. “My dear
sweet Lucia. You do not believe his statement?"
"I do not," replied Winifred. "Never give in. His initial nervousness had already abated, and it took
some valour to allow himself to become embroiled in Melusine’s crazy schemes.
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