A hush descended across the audience as instruments
tuned, creating small ladders of fifths that collapsed
abruptly, snatches of solos that disappeared and
reappeared like gags in a house of mirrors. All his interest in Ruth, all his care and
solicitude, could now be translated into a single word—love. He
had had five children at irregular intervals, of whom Ann Veronica was the
youngest, so that as a parent he came to her perhaps a little practised and jaded
and inattentive; and he called her his “little Vee,” and patted her unexpectedly
and disconcertingly, and treated her promiscuously as of any age between eleven
and eight-and-twenty. “I think—we all think that she is
wonderful. That he was immolating Ruth on the altar of his conscience never broke in upon
his thought for consideration. Wood's bed-chamber—it was locked, with the key left in it. \"Is it okay if I go on a date tonight?\" Lucy asked
Cathy. Your father has forbidden you to go!’”
“Well?”
“She said, ‘I hate being horrid to you and father, but I feel it my duty to go to
that ball!’”
“Felt it her duty!”
“‘Very well,’ I said, ‘then I wash my hands of the whole business. "Anything else?"
"Your waistcoat. "To-morrow night!" said Spurlock, in a wondering whisper. Anna watched her with curious eyes. You look like a movie star. ”
“Sounds interesting,” Ennison remarked. Day after day—five, to be exact—she had returned to Morgan's; and each time
the man would understand what had drawn her, and with a kindly smile would
sit down at the piano and play. She's not for
pleasure, but for work.
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