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"Have you really broken your engagement with Jim?" shrilled Tanny in a high voice, as the train roared. "Yes, he's impossible," said Josephine. "Perfectly hysterical and impossible." "And SELFISH " cried Tanny. "Oh terribly " cried Josephine. "Come up to Hampstead to lunch with us," said Lilly to Aaron. "Ay thank you," said Aaron. Lilly scribbled directions on a card.
"I guess there are others that feel caged, as well as you," said Aaron. "I guess there are." "And maybe they haven't a chance to get out." Lilly was silent a moment. Then he said: "Well, I didn't make life and society. I can only go my own way." Aaron too was silent. A deep disappointment was settling over his spirit. "Will you be alone all winter?" "Just myself and Tanny," he answered.
"All right, Argyle. Hoflichkeiten." "What? Gar keine Hoflichkeiten. Wahrhaftiger Kerl bin ich. When am I going to see Tanny? When are you coming to dine with me?" "After you've dined with us say the day after tomorrow." "Right you are. Delighted . Let me look if that water's boiling." He got up and poked half himself inside the bedroom. "Not yet. Damned filthy methylated spirit they sell."
Between Jim and Tanny was a sort of growing rapprochement, which got on Lilly's nerves. "What the hell do you take that beastly personal tone for?" cried Lilly at Tanny, as the three sat under a leafless great beech-tree. "But I'm not personal at all, am I, Mr. Bricknell?" said Tanny. Jim watched Lilly, and grinned pleasedly. "Why shouldn't you be, anyhow?" he said. "Yes!" she retorted. "Why not!"
Argyle was as tidy and scrupulous in his tiny rooms and his balcony as if he were a first-rate sea-man on a yacht. Lilly remarked on this. "Do you see signs of the old maid coming out in me? Oh, I don't doubt it. I don't doubt it. We all end that way. Age makes old maids of us all. And Tanny is all right, you say? Bring her to see me. Why didn't she come today?"
I've done my talking and had an answer, for once." "Yes, Rawdy, you've had an answer, for once. Usually you don't get an answer, you know and that's why you go so far in the things you say. Now you'll know how you make people feel." "Quite!" said Lilly. "I don't feel anything. I don't mind what he says," said Jim. "Yes, but he ought to know the things he DOES say," said Tanny.
This conquest being achieved at a very easy purchase, two of the great ships anchored between Tanny fort and a battery on the other side of the river, which were abandoned before one shot was discharged against either; thus the passage was laid open to Calcutta, the reduction of which we shall record among the transactions of the ensuing year.
With such a fine woman as Tanny I should think so RATHER! But his is an exceptional nature, and an exceptional case. As for me, I made a hell of my marriage, and I swear it nearly sent me to hell. But I didn't forswear love, when I forswore marriage and woman. Not by ANY means." "Are you not seeking any more, Lilly?" asked the Marchese. "Do you seek nothing?"
But I'd rather meet her abroad than here and get on a different footing." "Why?" "Oh, I don't know. There's something with marriage altogether, I think. Egoisme a deux " "What's that mean?" "Egoisme a deux? Two people, one egoism. Marriage is a self-conscious egoistic state, it seems to me." "You've got no children?" said Aaron. "No. Tanny wants children badly. I don't. I'm thankful we have none."
"Why shouldn't I, if I like it?" said Jim. "Yes, why not?" said Tanny. "Because it makes a fool of you. Look at you, stumbling and staggering with no use in your legs. I'd be ashamed if I were you." "Would you?" said Jim. "I would. And it's nothing but your wanting to be loved which does it. A maudlin crying to be loved, which makes your knees all go rickety." "Think that's it?" said Jim.
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