Lucy snatched it up and put it in
her pack. The Jew got in first. What had been
happening all this time?
‘Do you tell me he has not again left his apartment?’
‘Only to go to some party or other Monday night,’ Kimble said. In her little sitting-room she turned on the electric light and looked
around half fearfully. ”
“Oh Jesus. But I do hope, Vee, I do
hope—this is the end of these adventures. ”
“Do you think of these things—these matters—as belonging to our Higher
Nature or our Lower?”
“I don’t deal in Higher Things, I tell you,” said Ann Veronica, “or Lower, for
the matter of that. A wide terrace then led to large iron gates,' over which were
placed the two celebrated figures of Raving and Melancholy Madness, executed
by the elder Cibber, and commemorated by Pope in the Dunciad, in the wellknown lines:—
"Close to those walls where Folly holds her throne,
And laughs to think Monroe would take her down,
Where, o'er the gates, by his famed father's hand,
Great Cibber's brazen, brainless brothers stand. She
had the same sharp nose—which, indeed, only Ann Veronica, of all the family,
had escaped. ”
“One has theories,” said Ann Veronica, radiantly. On the appearance of the thief-taker, Mrs.
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