And now she was witnessing or observing the complicated machinery of civilization through which they had come, at length to land on the beach of her island. “Michelle, I don’t ever want to hear you mention the subject you mentioned at dinner again. You are my wife now and you belong to me. laws alone swamp our small staff. ” He left the room, and she stood motionless, with flaming cheeks, listening to his retreating footsteps. 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. We all did that in our youth, when first we came upon a fine story; else we were worthless metal indeed. But she had not reckoned with the etiquette of Canongate.
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