. “You can count upon me, Nigel,” she said. Jack was so harrassed that he felt half inclined to stand at bay. ‘Monsieur, my wife intended not to anger you,’ he said in a tone of apology. One point was that she was to wear fancy dress in the likeness of a
Corsair’s bride, and the other was that she was to spend whatever vestiges of the
night remained after the dance was over in London with the Widgett girls and a
select party in “quite a decent little hotel” near Fitzroy Square. She could not go to him with a preachment against strong drink; she knew from
experience that such a plan would be wasted effort. Just as the clergyman approached the altar, she perceived a boy steal quickly into
the church, and ensconce himself behind the woollen-draper, who, in order to
carry on his amatory pursuits with greater convenience, and at the same time
display his figure (of which he was not a little vain) to the utmost advantage,
preferred a standing to a sitting posture. They either ran to see or ran
for shelter. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city at
night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret;
that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating
heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings,
a secret to the heart nearest it!' … It kind of terrifies me," said Ruth, looking up,
first at the face of her husband, then at McClintock's. “Don’t worry, Julian.
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