The recollection of the forlorn and loveless years—stirred
into consciousness by the unexpected confrontation—bent her as the high wind
bends the water-reed. The man who staggers,
whose face is flushed, whose attitude is either noisily friendly or truculent, has
some chance; liquor bends him eventually. “Father,” she cried, “I have to live!”
He misunderstood her. ”
“I care as a man cares only once in his life,” he answered promptly. She stood up and he
sat down at the microscope, and for a time he was busy scrutinizing one section
after another. “You know of no one likely to have had a grudge against this man?” he asked. Michelle ate fast, and Lucy followed her lead,
shoveling mashed potatoes and salmon down her gullet in
a passionless frenzy. Indignation carried her through that night, that men and the world could so
entreat her. ‘If you had told
him that I would rather die than see him, he would not have come.
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