” Annabel leaned back in her chair and laughed till the tears stood in her eyes. "I'm prudence personified. . Capes was an exceptionally fair man of two or three-and-thirty, so ruddily blond that it was a mercy he had escaped light eyelashes, and with a minor but by no means contemptible reputation of his own. His grey eyes burned under his shaggy eyebrows. A florid-looking young woman rose up and accosted him eagerly. He thought he heard a scraping sound as he turned the handle. ’ ‘What? But—’ ‘Precisely, Hilary. This obstacle being removed, in his eagerness to proceed, he had forgotten to take his little charge with him. She taught him all the lore she had; about bird-life and tree-life and the changing mysteries of the sea. For a few minutes, she appeared scarcely sensible of his presence. Why wasn't the world full of love, when love made happiness? Why did people hide their natural kindliness as if it were something shameful? Why shouldn't people say what they thought and act as they were inclined? Why all this pother about what one's neighbour thought, when this pother was not energized by any good will? Why was truth avoided as the plague? Why did this young man have one name on the hotel register and another on his lips? Why was she bothering about him at all? Why should there be this inexplicable compassion, when the normal sensation should have been repellance? Sidney Carton. The London backgrounds, in Bloomsbury and Marylebone, against which these people went to and fro, took on, by reason of their gray facades, their implacably respectable windows and window-blinds, their reiterated unmeaning iron railings, a stronger and stronger suggestion of the flavor of her father at his most obdurate phase, and of all that she felt herself fighting against.
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