Gianfrancesco had been talked into the arrangement only because the drivers that had handled the job for generations were sick or dead. Wood's house was broken into and plundered. Baptist Kettleby (for so was the Master named) was a "goodly portly man, and a corpulent," whose fair round paunch bespoke the affection he entertained for good liquor and good living. All who lived there aspired to be something greater, all who lived there had hope, even the slaves! Oh, Lucia, if you could have seen the Parthenon, or attended the plays at the Athaneum, you would know why I loved it there. At the back of her mind, dim and yet disconcerting, was the perception that she herself did not know what she wanted. The entire place was a masterpiece of wooden carving, a design of interleaving carried throughout. Sometimes we had the Illustrated London News and Tit-Bits. A piece of old blanket was fastened across her shoulders, and she had no other clothing except a petticoat. She had no idea what she should do. It consisted of a full-dress coat of brown flowered velvet, laced with silver; a waistcoat of white satin, likewise richly embroidered; shoes with red heels, and large diamond buckles; pearlcoloured silk stockings with gold clocks; a muslin cravat, or steen-kirk, as it was termed, edged with the fine point lace; ruffles of the same material, and so ample as almost to hide the tips of his fingers; and a silver-hilted sword. The black clad students streamed slowly to their positions carrying their instruments like offerings to the pilgrimage.
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