58/134 If you had you'd have called on me--I've given you plenty of hints and little coughs. Now, you see, I don't cough any more--I just rush at you and grab you. You don't call on me--so I call on YOU. There isn't any indecency moreover that I won't commit for my child." Mr.Longdon's impenetrability crashed like glass at the elbow-touch of this large handsome practised woman, who walked for him, like some brazen pagan goddess, in a cloud of queer legend. He looked off at her child, who, at a distance and not hearing them, had not moved. |