" "You'd better send him," jeered the turnkey. I’ll give you grandpére!’ ‘But milor’—’ ‘Pardon!’ No longer master of his actions, the general lurched forward, waving his cane. Were I a painter of subject pictures, I would exhaust all my skill in proportion and perspective and atmosphere upon the august seat of empire, I would present it gray and dignified and immense and respectable beyond any mere verbal description, and then, in vivid black and very small, I would put in those valiantly impertinent vans, squatting at the base of its altitudes and pouring out a swift, straggling rush of ominous little black objects, minute figures of determined women at war with the universe. The sergeant had not seen it for he understood nothing of what she told him. And here he was, but a hundred yards away, this wastrel who trailed his genius through the mud. “You’ll do no such thing, Sheila. ‘It is, you understand, that Monsieur Charvill did not—how do you say in English?—having an eye to an eye—’ ‘Didn’t see eye to eye with the Vicomte Valade? That I can well believe. A bad one in a rough-and-tumble; all the water-front tricks. You won’t have a man’s lips near you, but you’ll eat out of his hand fast enough. Simply because they are hardened by—by bestiality, and poisoned by the juices of meat slain in anger and fermented drinks—fancy! drinks that have been swarmed in by thousands and thousands of horrible little bacteria!” “It’s yeast,” said Ann Veronica—“a vegetable. Will you read to me? I am tired; and the sound of your voice makes me drowsy. “I wouldn’t have been without this trip for worlds. The thought of going back!—the thought of the unknown out there!—" with a tragic gesture toward the east. But I do hope, Vee, I do hope—this is the end of these adventures.
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