. The skies became brilliant; the dry monsoon was setting in. The clouds were nearly black with rain, threatening to spill sleet in daggers and torrents. We had better have it over. ” Lucy hesitated. He wanted to know what the joke against him was—if any. Time after time he reminded her of how powerless she would be without him, how unkind the world was towards single women. Had this not been the case, he must have refused even to see his Frenchified granddaughter. The roof was partially untiled; the chimneys were tottering; the side-walls bulged, and were supported by a piece of timber propped against the opposite house; the glass in most of the windows was broken, and its place supplied with paper; while, in some cases, the very frames of the windows had been destroyed, and the apertures were left free to the airs of heaven. “We pretend bodies are ugly. “Why should women be dependent on men?” she asked; and the question was at once converted into a system of variations upon the theme of “Why are things as they are?”—“Why are human beings viviparous?”—“Why are people hungry thrice a day?”—“Why does one faint at danger?” She stood for a time looking at the dry limbs and still human face of that desiccated unwrapped mummy from the very beginnings of social life.
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