Project Gutenberg #60483
Antic Hay
Aldous Huxley
1923Huxley's postwar London satire, prepared chapter by chapter from Project Gutenberg plaintext.
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Chapter 18 — CHAPTER XVIII Central question What does Rosie’s social world reveal? Main argument Rosie values address, status, and the promise of upward movement, and Gumbril becomes entangled in that register of...
can you? You’re distressing yourself quite
unnecessarily on my account. I don’t find you neglect me or anything
like it. You have your life—naturally. And I have mine. We don’t get in
one another’s way.”
“But do you think that’s the ideal sort of married life?” asked
Shearwater.
“It’s obviously the most civ—vilized,” Rosie answered, laughing.
Confronted by Rosie’s civilization, Shearwater felt helpless.
“Well, if you don’t want,” he said. “I’d hoped ... I’d thought....”
He went back to his study to think things over. The more he thought them
over, the more he blamed himself. And incessantly the memory of Mrs.
Viveash tormented him.