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Gerald moved to the long sofa, dusted it with elaborate care with one of its
cushions, and with a gesture invited her to sit down. “I like your brother better than any other man I know,” Anna said at last. On examining the door, he found it secured by a large rusty lock, which he
endeavoured to pick with the nail he had just acquired; but all his efforts proving
ineffectual, he removed the plate that covered it with the bar, and with his fingers
contrived to draw back the bolt. “Why should women be dependent on men?” she asked; and the question was
at once converted into a system of variations upon the theme of “Why are things
as they are?”—“Why are human beings viviparous?”—“Why are people hungry
thrice a day?”—“Why does one faint at danger?”
She stood for a time looking at the dry limbs and still human face of that
desiccated unwrapped mummy from the very beginnings of social life. “You cowards!”
said Ann Veronica, “put her down!” and tore herself from a detaining hand and
battered with her fists upon the big red ear and blue shoulder of the policeman
who held the little old lady. She had removed her hat and utterly disarranged her already unruly
black locks by running agitated fingers through them. "Please hurry the ammonia;" and Ruth turned
away abruptly. "Good bye!" cried Mrs. Sheppard,
passing her hand across her brow; "but my memory is gone—quite gone. She hated being angry,
the uselessness of it all, the frustration.
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