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Crossing the grass down to theSerpentine, she felt a sort of creeping
sweetness.
Ruffians like that, muttered Soames, oughtnt to be at large. Soames,
in the car, was gazing at Riggs back.
Quick enough, grumbled Soames, but steady
does it in the longrun. She could ask him to lunch in South Square,but hardly
without his wife or her own husband.
With all her experience of distinction,
she ought tohave known better! Supping pea soup, Jon thought of themwith
pleasure. Together with the figure, itgave an impression of really remarkable
languor.
It, too, was moving in the direction of GreenStreet. Fleur herself was
on the bridge all the time.
The little chaps got a twinkle, said Soames.
With a
warped pleasure sheheard Hollys: Anne thinks you wonderful, Fleur!
People are
saying thisll be the end of it.
And there was silence at thirty miles an
hour.
Crossing the grass down to theSerpentine, she felt a sort of creeping
sweetness.
Let us give the strikers, said Michael, every possible excuse towink
the other eye. She stood looking at her face, intowhich had come two patches of
red, one in each cheek.
Whats your opinionof the strike as a weapon, sir? From
his bedroom door Jon said to his sister:They say Fleur runs that canteen.
Over
his egg Soames had said:Well, the Budgets dished. Aunt Winifred, said Holly,
will be delighted to have Anne hereon Friday, she told me to tell you.
How was
she going to see Jon alone before he left for Wansdon?
Peoplepassed and passed
him, each with a news-sheet, or a look in theeye. Now people weresaying that
State education had ruined the State.
Leaving the world better than he found
it? Perhaps shed been right;there was always a lot of human nature about.
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