8/11 But how are we women expected to behave, then? And I shall have to confess it to my duke, though he warned me. Old men hold their fingers up--so! One finger: and you never forget the sight of it, never. It's a round finger, like the handle of a jug, and won't point at you when they're lecturing, and the skin's like an old coat on gaffer's shoulders--or, Chloe! just like, when you look at the nail, a rumpled counterpane up to the face of a corpse. |