Gordon often
suffered to occur. She continued to deliver herself upon a hundred
topics, and it hardly matters where we take her up.
"I have n't the least idea what we are going to do. I have nothing to
say about it whatever. Gordon tells me every day I must decide, and
then I ask Captain Lovelock what he thinks; because, you see, he always
thinks a great deal. Captain Lovelock says he does n't care a fig--that
he will go wherever I go. So you see that does n't carry us very far.
I want to settle on some place where Captain Lovelock won't go, but he
won't help me at all. I think it will look better for him not to follow
us; don't you think it will look better, Mrs. Vivian? Not that I care in
the least where we go--or whether Captain Lovelock follows us, either.
I don't take any interest in anything, Mrs. Vivian; don't you think that
is very sad? Gordon may go anywhere he likes--to St. Petersburg, or to
Bombay."
"You might go to a worse place than Bombay," said Captain Lovelock,
speaking with the authority of an Anglo-Indian rich in reminiscences.
Blanche gave him a little stare.
"Ah well, that 's knocked on the head! From the way you speak of it, I
think you would come after us; and the more I think of that, the more
I see it would n't do.
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