” She answered. In the matter of his conscience he was primitive;
and for an educated man to become primitive is to become something of a child. I didn’t know that you had it
that bad,” said John. ’
‘Ah, but why remain penniless? After all, your grandfather Charvill—’
‘Again with the grandfather? Mon ami, if you imagine that this grandfather
will welcome a daughter of Nicholas Charvill, whom he has never forgiven that
he married a Frenchwoman, then you have an imagination entirely wrong. You yourself, I am sure, recognize how
impossible you have made it for me now to do anything of the sort. 1. All her tender lures, inherent and acquired, had shattered themselves futilely
against the reserve he had set between them. They were
ingenious disguises of gilt paper destructively gummed, it would seem, to Ann
Veronicas’ best dancing-slippers. She read
beautifully because the fixed form of the poem signified nothing.
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