Before there is any change, any real change, I shall be dead—dead—dead and
finished—two hundred years!. Part 2
Now, while Ann Veronica was taking these soundings in the industrial sea,
and measuring herself against the world as it is, she was also making extensive
explorations among the ideas and attitudes of a number of human beings who
seemed to be largely concerned with the world as it ought to be. His last actions were
futile. Sheppard. ’
‘And why are you not married,’ she demanded suddenly, ‘if it is that you have
land?’
Gerald grimaced. It is not you who runs the risk of
going dinnerless to-morrow. He never retires to rest
till daybreak—if at all. So that Ann Veronica was not able to get the expert advice she certainly
needed upon her spiritual state. The
whole place had come to life, the magic seeped out of the
walls. But the people among whom she was now thrown through the
social exertions of Miss Miniver and the Widgetts—for Teddy and Hetty came
up from Morningside Park and took her to an eighteen-penny dinner in Soho and
introduced her to some art students, who were also Socialists, and so opened the
way to an evening of meandering talk in a studio—carried with them like an
atmosphere this implication, not only that the world was in some stupid and even
obvious way WRONG, with which indeed she was quite prepared to agree, but
that it needed only a few pioneers to behave as such and be thoroughly and
indiscriminately “advanced,” for the new order to achieve itself. I suppose the phrase—the word—originally meant a
man who searched for food on the beach.
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