He stood back, smiling with an air of proprietorship, and looking about him at
the business-like equipment of the room. . Some one may observe us. Interrogation takes many
forms, you know, Lucy. From
suburbs, from country towns—everywhere. Pioneers all of them. “Rummy lot we are!” said Roddy. Once a sick sailor drew three pictures for
me and set down every stay and brace and sail—square-rigger, schooner, and
sloop. On this I am resolved. Ye gods! what a
wilderness it is! Every one trying to get the better of every one, every one
regardless of every one—it’s one of those days when every one bumps against
you—every one pouring coal smoke into the air and making confusion worse
confounded, motor omnibuses clattering and smelling, a horse down in the
Tottenham Court Road, an old woman at the corner coughing dreadfully—all the
painful sights of a great city, and here you come into it to take your chances. "
This sally occasioned a general laugh. ’ He
turned to the lodgekeeper behind him, whose shocked fear had given place to a
direful frown.
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