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Fox-Moore, forgetting some of her reluctance now that she was on the spot, valiantly followed Vida as the younger woman threaded her way among the constantly increasing crowd. Just in front of where the two came to a final standstill was a quiet-looking old man with a lot of unsold Sunday papers under one arm and wearing like an apron the bill of the Sunday Times.
No, no ... por fortuna todo esto se hace de balde, por más que digan lo contrario ... y todo esto lo haré con mi Eduardo.... Con él pasaré mi vida en un continuo éxtasis, y cuando una misma losa cubra al cabo de muchos años nuestras cenizas, todavía inseparables, que vengan entonces a echarme en cara si lo que comí en vida fué potaje de lentejas, o si mi esposo tenía un miserable arriero por tatarabuelo.
'You laugh! Ernestine's voice rang out. 'Wait a moment, said Vida to her companions. She looked back. It was plain, from Ernestine's face, she was not going to let the meeting break up on that note. 'Don't you think it a little strange, considering the well-known chivalry among men don't you think it strange that against no reform the world has ever seen ? 'Reform! Wot rot!
Shrouded in shame, Carol did not know when Vida slipped away. The clock's bell, at half past five, aroused her. "I must get hold of myself before Will comes. I hope he never knows what a fool his wife is. . . . Frozen, sneering, horrible hearts." Like a very small, very lonely girl she trudged up-stairs, slow step by step, her feet dragging, her hand on the rail.
She was no longer irritated by the cooing of the matrons, nor by their opinion that diet didn't matter so long as the Little Ones had plenty of lace and moist kisses, but she concluded that in the care of babies as in politics, intelligence was superior to quotations about pansies. She liked best to talk about Hugh to Kennicott, Vida, and the Bjornstams.
Unconsciously, she had discarded the Jolly Seventeen, Guy Pollock, Vida, and every one save Mrs. Dr. Westlake and the friends whom she did not clearly know as friends the Bjornstams. To Hugh, the Red Swede was the most heroic and powerful person in the world.
'Well, rather! I collect rents in her district. 'Oh, do you? You never told me. 'Why should I tell you? Ernestine was dismissing the meeting. 'You are very tired, said Lord Borrodaile, looking at Vida Levering's face. 'Yes, she said. 'I'll go now. Come, Sophia! 'We shall be here on Thursday, Ernestine was saying, 'at the same hour, and we hope a great many of you will want to join us.
'Sophia! he ejaculated softly, 'and Stonor! by the beard of the prophet! He half rose, whether more annoyed or amazed it would be hard to tell. 'We're discovered! he said, in a laughing whisper. As he turned to add 'The murder's out, he saw that Vida had quietly averted her face. She was leaning her head on her hand, so that it masked her features.
I didn't say at all that if I had been in her place Mr. Clyde would of long since had my permission to go to the devil. Yes, sir; I'd have had that lad going south early in the second year. Mebbe not at that! A woman never really knows how some other man might of made a fool of her. Two more years drug on, with about two letters from Vida, and then I get a terrible one announcing the grand crash.
'No, Vida helped her out with a laughing whisper; 'I agree she doesn't look big enough or bad enough or old enough or bold enough to be the mother of young women renowned for their dreadfulness. But as soon as she opens her mouth no doubt we'll smell the brimstone. I wish she'd begin her raging. Why are they waiting? 'It's only five minutes past, said the lady with the literature.
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