CHAPTER XIV. On a pallet in one corner lay a pale emaciated female. WARD, LOCK & CO. “You’ll have to take her!” shouted an inspector on horseback, and she echoed his cry: “You’ll have to take me!” They seized upon her and lifted her, and she screamed. One called her very distinctly “My dear!” Two secretarial posts did indeed seem to offer themselves in which, at least, there was no specific exclusion of womanhood; one was under a Radical Member of Parliament, and the other under a Harley Street doctor, and both men declined her proffered services with the utmost civility and admiration and terror. He wore a long coat, beautifully flowered, and a hat with a turned up brim. And if he didn’t, what was the good of seeing him? “I wish he was a woman,” she said, “then I could make him my friend. Ann Veronica was one of the few young people—and one must have young people just as one must have flowers—one could ask to a little gathering without the risk of a painful discord. ’ She tried to shake his hands off her wrists, but Gerald held them fast and tutted at her. “Yes, I see that. On the cords being removed, he made a desperate spring at Wild, bore him to the ground, clutched at his throat, and would, infallibly, have strangled him, if the keepers had not all thrown themselves upon him, and by main force torn him off. The iron slipped from his face, leaving it blank with astonishment. The Protestant Flagellant, who whipped his soul rather than his body, who made self-denial the rack and the boot, who believed that on Sunday it was sacrilegious to smile, blasphemous to laugh! Spurlock had gone back spiritually three hundred years. It was she who felt guilty as he showed her their bedroom, smelling her perfume, ingesting their psychic leftovers.
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