The latter began to
heave himself up from the sand. “Why come after me after all these years, Sebastianus?
Haven’t you found any sycophants to convert, any nubile
young nymphets to bring into the cannibal flock?”
“Why should I do that if there is still the chance of
you?”
“What if there could be no chance of me? How do
you know you can have me?”
“I see your game. Now, for the cage,
my pretty canary-bird. She mentally reprimanded herself
to alter her own visage so as not to appear depraved. Fathers are
abandoning their own children at the first sign of fever or
buboes, Gianfrancesco! Priests have abandoned their
churches. There sat Jack, evidently in the last stage of intoxication, with his collar
opened, his dress disarranged, a pipe in his mouth, a bowl of punch and a halfemptied rummer before him,—there he sat, receiving and returning, or rather
attempting to return,—for he was almost past consciousness,—the
blandishments of a couple of females, one of whom had passed her arm round
his neck, while the other leaned over the back of his chair and appeared from her
gestures to be whispering soft nonsense into his ear. ”
He signed his name and reflected. Earles answered, glibly. “One day,” he resumed, “we will start off early and come down into
Kandersteg and up these zigzags and here and here, and so past this Daubensee
to a tiny inn—it won’t be busy yet, though; we may get it all to ourselves—on
the brim of the steepest zigzag you can imagine, thousands of feet of zigzag; and
you will sit and eat lunch with me and look out across the Rhone Valley and over
blue distances beyond blue distances to the Matterhorn and Monte Rosa and a
long regiment of sunny, snowy mountains. "Thank you, sir," said Spurlock, holding out his hand. "
"Heaven help her!" sighed Jack. "To-night, your ladyship?" ventured an elderly domestic. And as he walked by her side they began a wrangle that
was none the less pleasant to Ann Veronica because it served to banish a
disagreeable preoccupation.
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