“And what on earth,” he said, “do you think
the world is made of? Why do you think I have been doing things for you? The
abstract pleasure of goodness? Are you one of the members of that great white
sisterhood that takes and does not give? The good accepting woman! Do you
really suppose a girl is entitled to live at free quarters on any man she meets
without giving any return?”
“I thought,” said Ann Veronica, “you were my friend. The looming face was
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over her own once again, and arms as strong as iron bars
held her down. Only your horror of a
grandfather insisted on coming with me, so I had to wait for him to be ready and
travel at his pace. It seemed to her that it was her duty to get
up and clamor to go home to her room, to protest against his advances as an
insult. It runs about gayly, it
romps, it is bright and pretty, it has enormous quantities of soft hair and more
power of expressing affection than its brothers. The charm of innocence breathes around her, as fragrance is diffused
by the flower, sanctifying her lightest thought and action, and shielding her, like
a spell, from the approach of evil. She seemed to assume that it must
certainly be something she had said. Advancing towards them, sword in hand, Jonathan so
terrified the hinds by his fierce looks and determined manner, that, after a slight
show of resistance, they took to their heels, leaving him master of the field. “Don’t you understand? It is I whom you cared for in
Paris, not Anna.
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