At the open door stood a young man in a rich garb with a mask on his face, who was encouraging the mob by words and gestures. She thought of him as always courteous and helpful, as realizing, indeed, his ideal of protection and service, as chivalrously leaving her free to live her own life, rejoicing with an infinite generosity in every detail of her irresponsive being. “Delusion!” “You can call it what you like,” she said. She opened her suitcase—new and smelling strongly of leather—and took out of it a book, dogeared and precariously held together, bound in faded blue cloth and bearing the inscription: The Universal Handbook. " "Yes. ” “But if we were?” said Ann Veronica. ” He seemed to be elaborating ideas as he talked. She wore a wonderful dress of turquoise blue, made by a great dressmaker for a function which she knew very well now that she would never attend. “I believe that you would find her in some respects curiously altered. ” “Right!” he answered. Great stone staircases leading no one knew whither, and long gloomy passages, impressed the occasional visitor with the idea that he was traversing a building of vast extent; and, though this was not the case in reality, the deception was so cleverly contrived that it seldom failed of producing the intended effect. They then swiftly mounted the stairs, and stopped before the audience-chamber. He breathed heavily, as though he had been running. " After narrowly examining the countenance of the sitter, and motioning him with his pencil into a particular attitude, Sir James Thornhill commenced operations; and, while he rapidly transferred his lineaments to the canvass, engaged him in conversation, in the course of which he artfully contrived to draw him into a recital of his adventures. Trenchard was tempted to examine the contents of some of these cases, but a closer inspection made him recoil from them in disgust.
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