John’s parents were won over. It was a society column about the richest men in the world and their lavish parties. He glanced up. “Let’s go. I guess they were bad all the time. I have not found the secret way into the house, for instance. ’ ‘I didn’t say I did not enjoy it,’ Gerald protested. Were I a painter of subject pictures, I would exhaust all my skill in proportion and perspective and atmosphere upon the august seat of empire, I would present it gray and dignified and immense and respectable beyond any mere verbal description, and then, in vivid black and very small, I would put in those valiantly impertinent vans, squatting at the base of its altitudes and pouring out a swift, straggling rush of ominous little black objects, minute figures of determined women at war with the universe. She was dressed in a tattered black stuff gown, discoloured by various stains, and intended, it would seem, from the remnants of rusty crape with which it was here and there tricked out, to represent the garb of widowhood, and held in her arms a sleeping infant, swathed in the folds of a linsey-woolsey shawl. Gazing at her with eyes blinded with tears, he imprinted one brotherly kiss upon her lips. Were the parents agreeable? Were they of age? Had the license been procured? But here, in a far country, only the velvet manacles of wedlock were necessary. He saw that his words were falling upon dull ears.
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