Chapter VIII
“WHITE’S”
Northwards, away from the inhospitality of West Kensington, rumbled the
ancient four-wheel cab, laden with luggage and drawn by a wheezy old horse
rapidly approaching its last days. “But we only aid the beccamorti by giving them our
business! I refuse to pay exorbitant prices for wood
coffins and burial for lesser servants who could just as
easily be dragged into the pit! Let the dead bury the
dead!”
“You fool! It is the gross lack of sanitation you speak
of that has brought us to this very end. It was a curious sight to see how this extraordinary woman, who, it has been
said, was not less remarkable for the extreme delicacy of her features, and the
faultless symmetry of her figure, than for her wonderful strength and agility,
conducted herself in the present encounter; with what dexterity she parried every
blow aimed against her by her adversary, whose head and face, already marked
by various ruddy streams, showed how successfully her own hits had been made;
—how she drew him hither and thither, now leading him on, now driving him
suddenly back; harassing and exhausting him in every possible way, and making
it apparent that she could at any moment put an end to the fight, and only
delayed the finishing stroke to make his punishment the more severe. "I shouldn't wonder," replied Mrs. Earles, but it is a good one. Several arrests of importance have been intrusted to him; but, forewarned,
forearmed, we have constantly baffled his schemes;—ha! ha! Jonathan's a
devilish clever fellow. Why am I here—thirty years of loneliness?
Because I know women, the good and the bad; and because I could not have the
good, I would not take the bad. “This,” he said, and then: “No! Is this
sweeter? Very well. ‘Hilary was
right. ‘Caught her sneaking after that Valade
fellow. "Take off these chains, Rowland," said Lady Trafford, "instantly, I command
you. He often
wanted only to drive with her in the car, both of them
staring at the scenery in silence for hours. "
"I'll bet she still smells to heaven with sour coconut.
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