The house was redolent with the smells of cinnamon baking and the stuffed turkey and marinated pork roast. He spent a good deal more money and time than he could afford upon the little room at the top of the house, in producing new lapidary apparatus and new microscopic accessories and in rubbing down slices of rock to a transparent thinness and mounting them in a beautiful and dignified manner. ‘It must seem strange to you at first. It was a boy baby cooing in swaddling clothes, a baby who had just been born to the butcher's servant across the alley, the maid Isobella who trailed behind, beaming. In all her life no living thing had had to depend upon her, not even a dog or a cat. When he comes he will do that raid of the pantechnicons the justice it deserves; he will picture the orderly evening scene about the Imperial Legislature in convincing detail, the coming and going of cabs and motor-cabs and broughams through the chill, damp evening into New Palace Yard, the reinforced but untroubled and unsuspecting police about the entries of those great buildings whose square and panelled Victorian Gothic streams up from the glare of the lamps into the murkiness of the night; Big Ben shining overhead, an unassailable beacon, and the incidental traffic of Westminster, cabs, carts, and glowing omnibuses going to and from the bridge. When she finally did take her own lover, it was not with a member of the household staff. Jolly hard life for a girl, getting a living. ‘Please to sit, monsieur. “Showtime!” Martin cried. “Do you know,” she said, “that every one is remarking how ill you look. ” He was very indifferent. Hers were less noble, yet stately.
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