Somehow or
other his reputation as a hardened and unassailable bachelor had won for him
during the last few years a comparative immunity from attentions on the part of
those women with whom he had been brought into contact. For all the
enervating heat, he applied himself vigorously to his tasks. He used a
most awful word! Then he said, ‘It’s Ann Veronica gone to join her sister!’
‘Gone!’ I said. "Impossible!" exclaimed the widow, wildly. It was a neat, efficient-looking room,
with a writing-table placed with a business-like regard to the window, and a
bookcase surmounted by a pig’s skull, a dissected frog in a sealed bottle, and a
pile of shiny, black-covered note-books. And then
presently these clouds began to wear thin and expose steep, deep slopes, going
down and down, with grass and pine-trees, down and down, and at last, through
a great rent in the clouds, bare roofs, shining like very minute pin-heads, and a
road like a fibre of white silk-Macugnana, in Italy. To-morrow I shall come and talk to
you again—of other things. . ’ A reluctant laugh escaped him.
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