There were seven tales in all—short stories—a method of expression quite strange to her, after the immense canvases of Dickens and Hugo. On his return to London, he found that applications had been made from a somewhat doubtful quarter by two individuals, for the posts of subordinate officers in his troop. “I haven’t a scrap—of this sort of aversion. ‘But that is excessively unkind of you, Melusine. I am no use for a clerk, because I do not understand shorthand. ’ Gerald eyed her. When he comes he will do that raid of the pantechnicons the justice it deserves; he will picture the orderly evening scene about the Imperial Legislature in convincing detail, the coming and going of cabs and motor-cabs and broughams through the chill, damp evening into New Palace Yard, the reinforced but untroubled and unsuspecting police about the entries of those great buildings whose square and panelled Victorian Gothic streams up from the glare of the lamps into the murkiness of the night; Big Ben shining overhead, an unassailable beacon, and the incidental traffic of Westminster, cabs, carts, and glowing omnibuses going to and from the bridge. I don’t want to Bowdlerize Shakespeare.
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