"Ruth!"
She had gone to the door, aimlessly, without purpose. She took up the poker and stirred the fire vigorously. “He writes very well,” said Ann Veronica. I’m in this apartment and looking for work because—Well, what else can I
do, when my father practically locks me up?”
“I know,” said Mr. ]
CHAPTER XI
The second call energized her into action. The London backgrounds, in Bloomsbury and
Marylebone, against which these people went to and fro, took on, by reason of
their gray facades, their implacably respectable windows and window-blinds,
their reiterated unmeaning iron railings, a stronger and stronger suggestion of the
flavor of her father at his most obdurate phase, and of all that she felt herself
fighting against. It was ten feet long, a relic. I have yet another. I get my driver's license tomorrow. "Let us sit here," she said, indicating the white sand bordering the lagoon; "and
in a minute or two you will see something quite wonderful. The young lady in the bureau said she would inquire, and Ann Veronica, while
she affected to read the appeal on a hospital collecting-box upon the bureau
counter, had a disagreeable sense of being surveyed from behind by a small,
whiskered gentleman in a frock-coat, who came out of the inner office and into
the hall among a number of equally observant green porters to look at her and
her bags. "Then you'll never know more than this," retorted Blueskin, with a grin of
satisfaction;—"they're in a place of safety, where you'll never find 'em, but where
somebody else will, and that before long. Nothing would stop her,
and she was prepared to face the consequences.
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