” Lucy wanted badly to believe her. She had eaten them. I suppose I was a little idiotic—I don’t think we either of us mentioned the future, but it was arranged that I should go the next afternoon and have tea with her. You have been useful to me, or I would not have spared you thus long. Wait a moment. She tried to appear as if she had never been questioned before. Her cheeks burned for a moment or two when she reached the street, although she held her head upright and walked blithely, even humming to herself fragments of an old French song. It did not occur to her that save for some accidents of education and character they had souls like her own. The spinsters—who on the morrow would vanish out of the girl's life for ever—had already left their imprint upon her imagination. She may be an infuriating little devil, but she is far from stupid. If he adhered to this policy—to keep away from her inconspicuously—she would forget the name by night, and to-morrow even the bearer of it would sink below the level of recollection. She was too wrapped up in the sheer joy of playing again; it had 201 been intimate, masturbatory. The size and grandeur of the edifice, indeed, drew down the ridicule of several of the wits of the age: by one of whom—the facetious Tom Brown—it was said, "Bedlam is a pleasant place, and abounds with amusements; —the first of which is the building, so stately a fabric for persons wholly insensible of the beauty and use of it: the outside being a perfect mockery of the inside, and admitting of two amusing queries,—Whether the persons that ordered the building of it, or those that inhabit it, were the maddest? and, whether the name and thing be not as disagreeable as harp and harrow. If she has no children, she goes on loving her husband; but he is no longer a man but a child. I'll not forget your two mistresses, Jack.
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