Meanwhile, she was spirited away from John and
bombarded by half-familiar people who attempted to chat
with her above the roar of the crowd. Swiftly following the sound of knocking, she crossed right and
passed through a door near the windows—and found herself in the bookroom. So that the
thought of Ann Veronica up-stairs had been extremely painful for her through all
the silent dinner-time that night. The lights of the Champs Elysées and the Place de la
Concorde, suggestive, brilliant, seductive, shone like an army of fireflies against
the deep cool background of the night. When I am leading a true life,
a pure and simple life free of all stimulants and excitements, I think—I think—
oh! with pellucid clearness; but if I so much as take a mouthful of meat—or
anything—the mirror is all blurred. His instinct
was in the direction of considering his daughters his absolute property, bound to
obey him, his to give away or his to keep to be a comfort in his declining years
just as he thought fit.
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