20/23 He gets a little on one's nerves." "Ah, that's just what I feel is so jolly about him; no one would ever get on his nerves. I do think we've got too many nerves, don't you? He's such an uncommon-looking man; I want to have a talk with him about that little model. A country girl, wasn't she ?" She had turned her head towards a tall man with a very slight stoop and a brown, thin, bearded face, who was approaching from the door. She did not see that Cecilia had flushed, and was looking at her almost angrily. |