“I am going,” he said, “to be impertinent. She had looked up from her seat at the small round table in the centre of the
parlour which, together with the wooden armchairs beside the small fireplace,
and a sideboard next the single casement, was all the furniture the place
afforded. “Miss Pellissier,” he said, “these gentlemen are your friends, and therefore they
are my friends. I don’t have to take this shit. Do you know of what I speak?”
“I do, I do!” She said. And yet—he thought of the supper party where he had met
Annabel Pellissier, the stories about her, his own few minutes’ whispered lovemaking! He was a self-contained young man, but his cheeks grew hot at the
thought of the things which it had seemed quite natural to say to her then, but
which he knew very well would have been instantly resented by the girl whom
he had just left. You must—you shall be mine. The
confirmed drunkard's mouth at length sets itself peculiarly; it becomes the mark
by which thoughtful men know him. He
embraced her small body in his arms, kissing her forehead
over and over. It was not
a cambric curtain Ruth had drawn across that part of her life: it was of iron. That might happen on
her birthday—in August. Manning,
all this sort of thing is very well as sentiment, but does it correspond with the
realities? Are women truly such angelic things and men so chivalrous? You men
have, I know, meant to make us Queens and Goddesses, but in practice—well,
look, for example, at the stream of girls one meets going to work of a morning,
round-shouldered, cheap, and underfed! They aren’t queens, and no one is
treating them as queens.
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