‘But with more courage in her little finger than in many another female’s entire body. She loved her mother Marina more than any other thing in the world and could not bear to speak to her for a fortnight after being told her fate. Sampans with fish and fruit and vegetables swarmed about, while overhead gulls wheeled and swooped and circled. Even so much allusion as this to that family shadow, she felt, was an immense recognition of her ripening years. Now, abruptly, they were real again, though very distant, and she had come to say farewell to them across one sundering year. Every window, from the groundfloor to the garret had its occupant, and the roofs were covered with spectators. Disappointed in their hopes of the restoration of the fallen dynasty after the death of Anne, the adherents of the Chevalier de Saint George endeavoured, by sowing the seeds of dissension far and wide, to produce a general insurrection in his favour. They rose as she approached. "Do you wish to earn a rich reward, my good friend?" said Thames to the watchman, as soon as they were left alone. 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. He had scarcely entered the arch, when the indraught was so violent, and the noise of the wind so dreadful and astounding, that he almost determined to relinquish the undertaking.
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