"Try fifty pounds more," said Jonathan. But she threw a verbal bombshell into
the spinsters' camp. "We work together no more. 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. This incredible scene robbed him of the sense
of locomotion. He would condemn her
to the vengeance of the mob all for refusing to marry him. The mob pursued the thief-taker and his party all the way, and such missiles as
could be collected were hurled at them. He will tell you confidentially that he simply hates
the place. “It was poison—why not?” she answered. I didn’t
believe him and I said so. ’ He called through the library door. The rumor mills churned with the news
that he harbored for her no ill will, but was simply too
busy in his life to have a girlfriend that wasn’t “serious”. Past her shot the little old lady in the bonnet, running incredibly fast, but
otherwise still alertly respectable, and she was making a strange threatening
sound as she ran, such as one would use in driving ducks out of a garden—“B-rr-r-r-r—!” and pawing with black-gloved hands. "
"Well, you know I always act under your orders, Captain," returned Blueskin;
"and if you give the word to retreat, I shall obey, of course: but I know what
Edgeworth Bess will say when we go home empty-handed.
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