Will you come sensibly, or shall I carry you? You are mine!"
Ruth's peculiar education had not vitiated the primitive senses; they were always
on guard; and in a moment such as this they rushed instantly to the surface. Moments are ages now. ”
Ann Veronica looked at the mildly pensive gray eyes and the comfortable,
rather refined face with a penetrating curiosity. Part 2
They had their explanations the next evening, but they were explanations in
quite other terms than Ann Veronica had anticipated, quite other and much more
startling and illuminating terms. Crouching down, Gerald waited, hands at the ready. ”
“I’ve been certain of it for years. In the corner of the room were two
hockey-sticks and a tennis-racket, and upon the walls Ann Veronica, by means of
autotypes, had indicated her proclivities in art. Her
eyebrows were lifted in expostulation. Ann Veronica felt suddenly an effect of tremendous
pathos; she would have given anything to have been able to frame and make
some appeal, some utterance that should bridge this bottomless chasm that had
opened between her and her father, and she could find nothing whatever to say
that was in the least sincere and appealing. ”
The change in Lady Ferringhall’s manner was subtle but unmistakable.
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