17/17 They go arm-in-arm now, gravely and deliberately enough, along the old High-street, to the Nuns' House. At the gate, the street being within sight empty, Edwin bends down his face to Rosebud's. But give me your hand, and I'll blow a kiss into that.' He does so. She breathes a light breath into it and asks, retaining it and looking into it:-- 'Now say, what do you see ?' 'See, Rosa ?' 'Why, I thought you Egyptian boys could look into a hand and see all sorts of phantoms. Can't you see a happy Future ?' For certain, neither of them sees a happy Present, as the gate opens and closes, and one goes in, and the other goes away.. |