Chapter XXX SIR JOHN’S NECKTIE Sir John, in a quiet dark travelling suit, was sitting in a pokey little room writing letters. Taking the direction pointed out, he rode off. “And then they are swollen up and inflamed and drunken with matter. You see, the plain fact of the case is that I think I am too young and ignorant for marriage. You could walk the city streets and with every blink you could take in a new sight of beauty so great that your heart would weep for it. “Sir John of course disapproves of me,” she remarked slowly. Every home is a little recess, a niche, out of the world of business and competition, in which women and the future shelter. And Ann Veronica walked beside him, trying in vain to soften her heart to him by the thought of how she had ill-used him, and all the time, as her feet and mind grew weary together, rejoicing more and more that at the cost of this one interminable walk she escaped the prospect of—what was it?—“Ten thousand days, ten thousand nights” in his company. She had looked up from her seat at the small round table in the centre of the parlour which, together with the wooden armchairs beside the small fireplace, and a sideboard next the single casement, was all the furniture the place afforded. Accompanied by Sir Cecil, who still continued passionately enamoured of his sister, and to whom he represented that she had fallen a victim to the arts of a seducer, he set off, at fiery speed, for the metropolis. "Let me go," cried Winifred. "I declare I'm all in a cold sweat. But he was wide awake. Bravo!—the best cly-faker of 'em all couldn't have done it better. “To the best of my belief, I have not a single English acquaintance in the city.
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