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. Stanley,
putting his hands on the table in the manner rather of a barrister than a solicitor,
and regarding her balefully through his glasses with quite undisguised animosity,
asked, “And may I presume to inquire, then, what you mean to do?—how do
you propose to live?”
“I shall live,” sobbed Ann Veronica. The thin stream of blood on which her eyes
were fastened with a nameless horror reached almost to her feet. . His vocal collection comprised a couple of flash
songs pasted against the wall, entitled 'The Thief-Catcher's Prophecy,' and the
'Life and Death of the Darkman's Budge;' while his extraordinary mechanical
skill was displayed in what he termed (Jack had a supreme contempt for
orthography,) a 'Moddle of his Mas. The darkness prevented the carpenter from discerning the features or figure of
the stranger; and the ceaseless din precluded the possibility of holding any
communication by words with him. “I got your note just in time,” he remarked. She intercepted the glance the spinsters exchanged, and immediately sensed that
she had said too much. We two just love each other—the real, identical other—all the
time. She did not open
the Bible but laid it on the edge of the bed, knelt and rested her forehead upon
the worn leather cover.
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