'You always talked that kind of d----d
nonsense, you did! Unless you can arrange to say you'll give her up, you
may as well hold your tongue.'
'Very well,' said Hugo, 'I'll hold my tongue.'
'That's all, then?'
'Quite all.'
'I suppose I can go? You'll let me pass? You'll not exercise your right
to treat me as a burglar?'
'There are the stairs. Pass Shawn boldly. He is terrible, but he will
not eat you.'
'Thanks.'
'And that is the unrivalled company promoter! And this is life!' Hugo
meditated when he was alone on the dome.
He leaned over the railing of the gallery, and watched his legions
gathering for the day's battle.
CHAPTER VIII
ORANGE-BLOSSOM
Some two hours later Hugo was in one of the common rooms devoted to the
leisure and diversion of the legions in the upper basement: a large and
bright apartment, ornamented with bookcases, wicker chairs, and
reproductions of all that was most uplifting in graphic art. It was the
domain of the ladies engaged in Departments 30 to 45, and was managed by
an elected committee of their number. Affixed to the walls, in and out
among the specimens of graphic art, were quite a lot of little red
diamond squares, containing in white the words, 'Do it now,' in
excessively readable letters.
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