Bicket kissed; his vertigo was real, but behind it,
for the momentstifled, what sense of unreality! He would a hundred times rather she
had not. Intuition made him say at once:Hope I see you well sir. He himself had
gotused to it already, and so would they in time. Victorine was still bending over
the brown tin trunk.
Again that indefinable mockery, as if he had
something up hissleeve.
Somehad everything to their hand, like that pretty
wife of Mr.
Refusing itsextravagance, he raised his eyes, just
in time to see St. CHAPTER VIQUITTANCEBicket stumbled, half-blind, along the
Strand.
He himself had gotused to it already, and so would
they in time. Orwas it merely fellow-feeling with the hunted, a tremor at the
waythings found one out? Then, you WILL put up a barrage ifBicket blows
in?
I see, said Soames; I had it right,
then.
I happened to see his face in the sideboard glass
as I wentout. No; but I jolly well will if you dont pull yourself together. Hes an
intense admirer of that White Monkey you gave us. The alderman, who had been staring
up as if he saw a magpie onthe dome of St. In his opinion they would getcopped doing
it, and that before long.
Danby shouldnt have left theletter to me, if he
didnt mean me to enjoy myself.
I myself gave her the introduction to my friend,
Mr. She did it to get you out of the gutter, and give youboth a chance.
It was damned human of you, and it was damned human
of her;and dont you forget it!
In a general bankruptcy, why trouble with thrift,
far-sightedness,integrity? Again that indefinable mockery, as if he had something up
hissleeve.
He stopped, observing that her eyelids had drooped.
And, suddenly, Soames resolved to try a shot.
Bicket kissed; his vertigo was real, but behind it,
for the momentstifled, what sense of unreality!
In his opinion they would getcopped doing it, and
that before long.
If you think theres a rest, thats
enough.
Thats what shed do if Itold her how you snooped
those Copper Coins.