Part 7 The steps by which Ann Veronica determined to engage herself to marry Manning were never very clear to her. Priests and princes sought his knowledge of languages and philosophy and wantonly tried to throw themselves into his bed. “But of course it’s aunt’s doing really. But, alas! she was beautiful—and beauty is a crime not to be forgiven by a jealous woman. As though it was indelicate—it’s just a sort of shyness. No matter how often she came across this phase in love stories, there was never anything explanatory: as if all human beings perfectly understood. It is no good arguing about a thing like that. Never had her father explained. He knew it was unnerving, he did it to everyone, even his own kin. As it is not, however, our intention to furnish a complete catalogue of these curiosities, we shall merely mention that in front of them lay a large and sharp knife, once the property of the public executioner, and used by him to dissever the limbs of those condemned to death for high-treason; together with an immense two-pronged flesh-fork, likewise employed by the same terrible functionary to plunge the quarters of his victims in the caldrons of boiling tar and oil. He drove it into her missionary style, and though he was worried about hurting her, he could not stop himself from thrusting into her deeply. Goopes had a great set-to about the sincerity of Chesterton and Belloc that was ended by Goopes showing signs of resuming the Socratic method. ‘How do you do, my lord? I am Lucilla Froxfield. Oh, the beautiful books! Romance, adventure, love stories! She gathered up the books in her arms and cuddled them, as a mother might have cuddled a child.
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