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CHAPTER THE TWELFTH
ANN VERONICA PUTS THINGS IN ORDER
Part 1
Ann Veronica made a strenuous attempt to carry out her good resolutions. “I don’t understand. Who were you looking for tonight? One of the émigrés? There were several in
there. She regarded him coldly, as though wondering whether
he had anything further to say. She sensed a pelvic exam
coming on. This chap's recovery all
depends upon the care he receives. Why didn’t he die?”
Anna sprang to her feet and walked restlessly up and down the room. 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. Only after he had pushed himself
completely inside was the friction lessened. ’
‘What name would you like, then?’
Her shadowed features turned in his direction. He then
mounted the jaded hack, which had long since regained its legs, and was quietly
browsing the grass at the road-side, and, striking spurs into its side, rode off.
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