"He never let me keep a dog or a cat about the house. On reaching the churchyard, he perceived the melancholy procession descending the hill. Charvill’s command of French was enough to tell him that, for its entire content was devoted to commending Nicholas Charvill’s fourteen year old daughter into the care of the Abbess. “Lucy!” He whispered into her ear beneath a dusty curtain cloud. Finally, at the exit into Regent’s Park, they ran against Miss Klegg. He had scarcely entered the arch, when the indraught was so violent, and the noise of the wind so dreadful and astounding, that he almost determined to relinquish the undertaking. In the twilight he had ceased to be a person one could tackle and shame; he had become something more general, a something that crawled and sneaked toward her and would not let her alone. He's rewriting Poe and De Maupassant; and that stuff was good only when Poe and De Maupassant wrote it. “He can’t be more than thirty. Was that it? Had she clothed this unhappy young man with glamour? Or was it because he was so alone? She could not get through the husks to the kernel of what really actuated her. Mr. Diable. A friend of mine, Ogilvy’—I suppose that’s Ogilvy & Ogilvy, who do so many divorces, Vee?—‘was speaking very highly of it—very highly!’” He smiled into her eyes.
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