It was a port of call, since fortnightly a British mail-boat dropped her mudhook in the bay. For a second time Ann Veronica wanted to swear at the universe. “I should think YOU could do all sorts of things. The fanatic has no such word in his vocabulary. Were I a painter of subject pictures, I would exhaust all my skill in proportion and perspective and atmosphere upon the august seat of empire, I would present it gray and dignified and immense and respectable beyond any mere verbal description, and then, in vivid black and very small, I would put in those valiantly impertinent vans, squatting at the base of its altitudes and pouring out a swift, straggling rush of ominous little black objects, minute figures of determined women at war with the universe. South America was big; but ten thousand islands, scattered all over the biggest ocean on the map! Nearly all of them clear of the ship lanes and beaten tracks! The best thing he could do would be to call up the Quai d'Orsay and turn over the job to Lecocq. And then I'll pay off old scores. “I wonder which of us enjoys that most,” said Capes—“does he, or do we?” “He seems to get a zest—” “He does it and forgets it. “I am a fool,” he said. “You see, daddy, I don’t think it IS preposterous. She seemed to think he was merely the paymaster, handing over the means of her freedom.
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