” The dinner came to an end at last, and the whiskered waiter presented his bill and evacuated the apartment and closed the door behind him with an almost ostentatious discretion. He understood now that it was a part of her inheritance. He had had five children at irregular intervals, of whom Ann Veronica was the youngest, so that as a parent he came to her perhaps a little practised and jaded and inattentive; and he called her his “little Vee,” and patted her unexpectedly and disconcertingly, and treated her promiscuously as of any age between eleven and eight-and-twenty. “In the end,” it seemed to be thinking, “they embalmed me with the utmost respect—sound spices chosen to endure—the best! I took my world as I found it. There was no marriage, and I hated, oh, how I hated the man. And then the students went into the long laboratory and followed out these facts in almost living tissue with microscope and scalpel, probe and microtome, and the utmost of their skill and care, making now and then a raid into the compact museum of illustration next door, in which specimens and models and directions stood in disciplined ranks, under the direction of the demonstrator Capes. “But I am judge of that,” said Manning. ’ Gerald tutted. You speak as one injured—as though I had been the one to take your name—as though you had been the one to make sacrifices. Thames, look the door. His expression altered. “To begin with, I was—I was in the divorce court. ’ Gerald frowned in an effort of memory, and then laughed as he recalled one of the lies she had invented for his benefit. I know why. The troops had kept a large space clear around the gallows.
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