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Book, page 81 / 370 "I know. That's how I feel. Everything is so awful--so dismal and dreary, I find it--" They crowded into the train. Men were still yelling like wild beasts --others were asleep--soldiers were singing. "Have you really broken your engagement with Jim?" shrilled Tanny in a high voice, as the train roared. "Yes, he's impossible," said Josephine. "Perfectly hysterical and impossible." "And SELFISH--" cried Tanny. "Oh terribly--" cried Josephine. "Come up to Hampstead to lunch with us," said Lilly to Aaron. "Ay--thank you," said Aaron. Lilly scribbled directions on a card. The hot, jaded midnight underground rattled on. Aaron and Josephine got down to change trains. CHAPTER VII THE DARK SQUARE GARDEN Josephine had invited Aaron Sisson to dinner at a restaurant in Soho, one Sunday evening. They had a corner to themselves, and with a bottle of Burgundy she was getting his history from him. His father had been a shaft-sinker, earning good money, but had been killed by a fall down the shaft when Aaron was only four years old. The widow had opened a shop: Aaron was her only child. She had done well in her shop. She had wanted Aaron to be a schoolteacher. He had
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