CHAPTER XXIII Next morning Ruth did not refer to the episode on the sands of the lagoon. It contains news of the serious illness of a near relation at Paris. 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. But here was new music, tender and kindly and whimsical, that first roved to and fro in the mind and then cuddled up in the heart. She felt anger at Sebastian, anger at the thrill that she felt in her loins upon seeing him, anger at herself for never having the courage to end her own life. “Not at all. My father died a year ago, by the way. My politics in that matter wouldn’t be to give women votes. On a stool eight feet high sat a small boy in a faded blue cotton, his face like that of young Buddha. I do not say guest because that suggests friendship; and I am no friend of this Wastrel. In the floor were set four ring-bolts, about nine feet apart. He had adroitly captured her and led her away from her other guests on the pretext of feigning an interest in her charitable attitude to the newly arrived French. She seemed honestly glad to see him. He was always one step ahead of the curve, and he had found the right girls would always rat on a ringleader when their own academic records or passage to top rated colleges were at stake. Jack's appearance was hailed with the loudest cheers, but when Jonathan followed and took a place beside him in the vehicle, determined, he said, never to lose sight of him, the abhorrence of the multitude was expressed by execrations, hoots, and yells of the most terrific kind.
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