Finally she decided upon a
step that had always seemed reasonable to her, but that hitherto she had, from
motives too faint for her to formulate, refrained from taking. A good woman’s mind has angels with flaming swords at the portals to keep out
fallen thoughts. “They told me D,” said Ann Veronica. "Certainly not," replied Gay. She moved then, fast, taking refuge
behind a Chinese screen that was set beside the four-poster at the back of the
room. She had never had a real doll. "Sir Rowland is
your uncle—he will be your guardian—he will protect you. "
"Don't be angry with me, Sir," cried the widow, sobbing bitterly, "pray don't. “Well?” she said. Behind the Avenue was a little hill, and an iron-fenced path went over the
crest of this to a stile under an elm-tree, and forked there, with one branch going
back into the Avenue again. Ann Veronica stood in the twilight room staring at the door that had slammed
upon her aunt, her pocket-handkerchief rolled tightly in her hand. My little maidservant will think that I am lost. “To the best of my belief, I
have never seen the man in my life. All along the
wooden benches before it sat a profusion of soldiery, a collection of barbers in
attendance, busily employed in replaiting and powdering their hair ready for a
military review scheduled for this afternoon. "
"The ways of Providence are inscrutable," observed Wood.
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