Ten years of military life had taught him caution, but only strengthened a fearless zest for diving into any promising adventure with unalloyed enjoyment. Kneebone's cheeks glowed with rage, and he set down the wine untasted, while Blueskin resumed his song. A dark mass of wreckage, over which hung a slight mist of vapour, lay half in the ditch, half across the hedge, close under a tree from the trunk of which the bark had been torn and stripped. Plainly. When he comes he will do that raid of the pantechnicons the justice it deserves; he will picture the orderly evening scene about the Imperial Legislature in convincing detail, the coming and going of cabs and motor-cabs and broughams through the chill, damp evening into New Palace Yard, the reinforced but untroubled and unsuspecting police about the entries of those great buildings whose square and panelled Victorian Gothic streams up from the glare of the lamps into the murkiness of the night; Big Ben shining overhead, an unassailable beacon, and the incidental traffic of Westminster, cabs, carts, and glowing omnibuses going to and from the bridge. Retribution has a queer way of acting sometimes. Then she burst into a peal of laughter. In the distance a bell clanged, and chattering broke out in the doorway as several nuns came crowding in. “I suppose there’s no way of getting a decent income—independently. By rights I ought to have arrested her days ago. She rested for a half hour in heaven on earth, feeling herself drift in and out of sleep. Though meant to produce a totally different effect, the narrative seemed to excite the risible propensities rather than the commiseration of his auditor; and when Mr. She has contrived to keep out of my sight up to this time, and I've no doubt she'll keep out of it altogether for the future.
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