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. "I will struggle no longer with destiny. “Can I bring you anything, sir—a whisky and soda, or a liqueur? You’ll excuse me, sir, but you haven’t touched your coffee. The chance had gone. It would be downright cruel to disillusion her. She dared not say the word aloud, not even to herself. I did not care—no woman really cares—to play the beggar maid to your King Cophetua. ‘Get you invited to a party where the French émigrés will be present? Nothing easier, dear boy. Proof that the scoundrel had risen from the dead—for he was dead to his father! He glared at the female whose appearance in England had revived those painful memories—churning unbearably since Brewis Charvill had brought him the news and put him in the worst of tempers—and the fury spilled out. On the other a wretched engraving of the Chevalier de Saint George, or, as he was styled in the label attached to the portrait, James the Third, raised a suspicion that the inmate of the house was not altogether free from some tincture of Jacobitism. New customs have prevailed over the old. But to go courting a slave-girl, at the risk of physical hurt! A shudder of distaste wrinkled her shoulders. The gulf between rich and poor was perhaps greater in France, but by all accounts it was not the canaille who were responsible for the present turmoil. The Procession to Tyburn 462 XXXII.
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