"He who stands on the verge of the grave, as I do, should never be unprepared. Once I banged on the door so hard I split it in two. “Why should women be dependent on men?” she asked; and the question was at once converted into a system of variations upon the theme of “Why are things as they are?”—“Why are human beings viviparous?”—“Why are people hungry thrice a day?”—“Why does one faint at danger?” She stood for a time looking at the dry limbs and still human face of that desiccated unwrapped mummy from the very beginnings of social life. Instinctively she knew—some human recollection she had inherited—that she must not disturb him in this man-agony. Sometimes the music would be tender and dreamy, like a native mother's crooning to her young; sometimes it would be so gay that the flesh tingled and the feet were urged to dance; again, it would be like the storms crashing, thunderous. “I should like you to come here,” she said. Daughters were in the air that day. ‘A man who is false, who steals papers, who has a plot to take another’s name, who lies to the Mother Abbess and to me, and above all this—’ her voice near to breaking ‘—one who is French. Some indeed carried themselves, dressed themselves even, rather as foreign visitors from the land of “Looking Backward” and “News from Nowhere” than as the indigenous Londoners they were. Good-looking girl. Or, after all, is it worth while? The Channel is a little broader than the Boulevards— but one crosses it sometimes. As she crossed the square, almost within a stone’s throw of her lodgings, she came face to face with Courtlaw.
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