“Heavens, look at the time!” she exclaimed. His tone was rough, almost threatening. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with
some man?”
“What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad
as to go off alone?”
“After—after what had happened the night before?”
“Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face
as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the
very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and
there, sure enough, was yours. ” She agreed. ”
Annabel rose slowly to her feet, walked to the door as though to see that it was
shut, and came back with slow lagging footsteps. And taking the keys, he departed on the
errand. That would be an unkind twist of fate. Suppose—suppose a girl did want to start in life, start in
life for herself—” She looked him frankly in the eyes. She launched into a stuffy Partita
89
and played it too fast. ”
He was arrested for a moment by an indistinct picture of Veronica reading this
last sentence. Now
I’d like the rest of your story. At the expiration of an hour, by dint of
unremitting exertion, he had made so large a breach in the chimney, that he
could stand upright in it.
Video ID: TW96aWxsYS81LjAgQXBwbGVXZWJLaXQvNTM3LjM2IChLSFRNTCwgbGlrZSBHZWNrbzsgY29tcGF0aWJsZTsgQ2xhdWRlQm90LzEuMDsgK2NsYXVkZWJvdEBhbnRocm9waWMuY29tKSAtIDMuMTMzLjE2MS4yMDYgLSAxNi0wNy0yMDI0IDA1OjM5OjEyIC0gMjA0NzA4MTMxOA==
This video was uploaded to damaulifm.org on 13-07-2024 11:29:43