CHAPTER XXI. He tried to raise an outcry, but his throat was again forcibly griped by Rowland. It was surely odd that her thought should pick up that picture and recast it so vividly. She slept in a bedroom clad in linens and skins, walked down hallways bedecked in the most gay and colorful frescos. They sell only their talents, not their bodies; they are not girls of the street. "This is the gentleman," observed Jonathan, introducing Trenchard to the Hollander, "who is about to intrust his young relation to your care. "Here he is, waterman," exclaimed the benevolent carpenter. Set on unravelling her secrets, Gerald pursues every possible clue—much to the indignation of Mademoiselle. ‘You are jealous!’ ‘Yes,’ he agreed simply. Frankly, it is the funniest thing which has ever happened to me in my life. She would not look at him, would not think of him; when her mind wavered, then she muttered to herself in the darkness so as to keep hold of her generalizations. He had not addressed to her even the most ordinary courtesy of fellow travellers; she doubted that he was even aware of her existence. He was no doubt doing his best to express the attitude of society toward these wearily heroic defendants, but he seemed to be merely rude and unfair to Ann Veronica.
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