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came to her at once, and turning, walked by her side. She was dressed as a white woman should be; and
that for the present satisfied her instincts. It was then
that the young man entered his thought with some permanency: because there
was no apparent reason for his joining the tour, since from the beginning he had
shown no interest in anything. He rose at once to his feet and turned a white face
upon her. When he beheld Jack he uttered a deep groan. She didn’t choose her man. “Never mind the bill,” said Manning tragically, standing up
and thrusting a four-shilling piece into her hand, and turning a broad back on her
astonishment. The first Step towards the Ladder. ‘Oh, dearie me, I wish I’d never told you anything about it,’ lamented the nun,
moving to the only chair the vestry possessed and sinking down into it. ”
The figure of her aunt, a little distant, a little propitiatory, behind the coffee
things, filled her with a sense of almost catastrophic adventure. Ha! ha! ha!"
"Jack!" exclaimed Thames, angrily. I’m
like a creature just wakened up. Then she would have quiet times, in which she would say to herself, “Now
look here! Let me think it all out!”
For the first time, it seemed to her, she faced the facts of a woman’s position
in the world—the meagre realities of such freedom as it permitted her, the almost
unavoidable obligation to some individual man under which she must labor for
even a foothold in the world.
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