” Chapter XXV THE STEEL EDGE OF THE TRUTH The manservant, with his plain black clothes and black tie, had entered the room with a deferential little gesture. It became a sort of duel at last between them, and all the others sat and listened—every one, that is, except the Alderman, who had got the blond young man into a corner by the green-stained dresser with the aluminum things, and was sitting with his back to every one else, holding one hand over his mouth for greater privacy, and telling him, with an accent of confidential admission, in whispers of the chronic struggle between the natural modesty and general inoffensiveness of the Borough Council and the social evil in Marylebone. Jack's heart was too full to allow him to derive any pleasure from this scene; so he strolled on without raising his eyes till he arrived at Kensal Green. "My demeanour ought to convince you that I came with no hostile intention. ” The man contented himself with a nod. “I really do not believe,” he announced with satisfaction, “that any one would recognize me. “Are you sure you want to do this?” Lucy asked. ” Michelle replied. The proa bore away to the northwest out of which it had come. He disappeared into its thick doors like a magician’s rabbit. And it’s no good pretending there is one when there isn’t. It was a gracious gesture, she thought, as he trudged to the Beck’s humble doorstep in his stiff blue polyester uniform. “Why should it matter?” he said.
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