”
Ann Veronica looked at her thoughtfully for a moment, and decided to persist
on principle. I wish she wouldn’t look like that at us over her glasses. Why had he kissed her? What had led him into that? Neither love nor passion—
utter blankness so far as reducing the act to terms. But the father, to go his way forever alone!
The iron in the man!—the iron in this child of his!
Wanting a little love, a caress now and then. ”
“We will have some tea in the drawing-room as soon as ever we can—and I
will take my things off. E. Once a sick sailor drew three pictures for
me and set down every stay and brace and sail—square-rigger, schooner, and
sloop. Miss Moffatt, the history and moral instruction
mistress, was particularly explicit upon this score, and they all agreed in
indicating contempt and pity for girls whose minds ran on such matters, and who
betrayed it in their conversation or dress or bearing. She was surprised at his
modesty. And if I cared to have him come every
day, why shouldn’t he? I find him very amusing and very useful as well. "I am twenty," said the girl. But we were both
pledged to secrecy, and I couldn’t reveal my part for fear that I would lose my
place. A thing
which had mystified her since childhood, a smouldering wonder why it should
be, and until now she had never felt the urge to investigate.
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