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‘I can take care of myself, bête. Accordingly, the old knight reduced his
son's allowance to a third of its previous amount; and, upon further provocation,
he even went so far as to alter his will in favour of his daughter, Aliva, who was
then betrothed to her cousin, Sir Cecil Trafford. As
she hoisted her skirts near her waist, she thought ruefully
of the last time she had worn such an elaborate gown,
sometime near 1910 when petticoats were still considered
hip everyday garb. “Indeed I shall not forget your offer. There was only one small grated
window in this hold, which admitted but little light. “I can’t imagine it,” said Miss Miniver. ”
“I mean—”
“I behaved like an idiot, that’s all. And in these crowded four weeks,
what had she learned? That all horizons were lies: that smiles and handshakes
and goodbyes and welcomes were lies: that there were really no to-morrows,
only a treadmill of to-days: and that out of these lies and mirages she had
plucked a bitter truth—she was alone. His tie had demanded a struggle; he ought to have taken a clean one
after his first failure.
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