She found she was trembling at his nearness and full of a thrilling dread that
he might touch her. Mobs were gathered together on the slightest
possible pretext; and these tumultuous assemblages, while committing the most
outrageous excesses, loudly proclaimed their hatred to the house of Hanover, and
their determination to cut off the Protestant succession. ‘And why not?’
‘Because,’ Gerald said matter of factly, ‘convent-bred jeune demoiselles do
not commonly know how to handle either pistols or daggers. "
"It may be; but if it shortens the distance and lightens the journey, I care not,"
retorted the widow, who seemed by this reproach to be roused into sudden
eloquence. “What
have I been all this time?” she asked herself, and answered, “Just stark egotism,
crude assertion of Ann Veronica, without a modest rag of religion or discipline
or respect for authority to cover me!”
It seemed to her as though she had at last found the touchstone of conduct. "
"I will go," said Mrs.
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