Every care had been taken of it, as well as of himself, by the humane
inmates of the house in which he had sought shelter. Then she went below. In a second the glass lay shattered
upon the carpet. Ann Veronica was much impressed by a mighty trying on and altering and
fussing about Alice’s “things”—Alice was being re-costumed from garret to
cellar, with a walking-dress and walking-boots to measure, and a bride’s costume
of the most ravishing description, and stockings and such like beyond the dreams
of avarice—and a constant and increasing dripping into the house of irrelevant
remarkable objects, such as—
Real lace bedspread;
Gilt travelling clock;
Ornamental pewter plaque;
Salad bowl (silver mounted) and servers;
Madgett’s “English Poets” (twelve volumes), bound purple morocco;
Etc. It was a
cheerful, irresponsible, shamelessly hard-up family in the key of faded green and
flattened purple, and the girls went on from the High School to the Fadden Art
School and a bright, eventful life of art student dances, Socialist meetings,
theatre galleries, talking about work, and even, at intervals, work; and ever and
again they drew Ann Veronica from her sound persistent industry into the circle
of these experiences. I
speak no harm of her. He had brought the shrubs down from Syria,
and, strangely enough, they had prospered. The real tragedy—which he sensed
and toward which he was always reaching—eluded all his verbal skill. " Her utterance was here choked by sobs. ”
Lucy hesitated.
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