What had Brewis Charvill to say to that, Gerald?’ ‘He had nothing to say to it. As to following, there was no one. She’d prefer that I read classic literature, of course, but she only reads paperback romance novels, so she can’t exactly complain. I have often felt before that it is only when one has nothing to say that one can write easy poetry. My death, probably. The occasion of all this confusion and dismay, meanwhile, remained perfectly motionless; his figure erect, and with somewhat of dignity in his demeanour. ’ ‘Exactement. ” He looked at her intensely, his dark eyes deepened with sleeplessness. Arrived at her side, it was soon evident, from the throng of seamen in Dutch dresses that displayed themselves, that her crew were on the alert, and a rope having been thrown down to the skipper, he speedily hoisted himself on deck. There, after protestations of friendliness and helpfulness that were almost ardent, he mounted a little clumsily and rode off at an amiable pace, looking his best, making a leg with his riding gaiters, smiling and saluting, while Ann Veronica turned northward and so came to Micklechesil. Infested by every description of vagabond and miscreant, it was, perhaps, a few degrees worse than the rookery near Saint Giles's and the desperate neighbourhood of Saffron Hill in our own time.
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