"
"I cannot consent to it," replied Sir Rowland firmly. He was not sure that the boy had put himself beyond
the pale; merely, the boy's actions pointed that way. . Impressionable, lonely, a deal beyond his analytical reach, the
girl might let her sympathies go beyond those of the nurse. Ann Veronica loved beautiful things, and the beauty of undraped loveliness
not least among them; but these were pictures that did but insist coarsely upon
the roundness of women’s bodies. "
"I am fully aware of it, Sir Rowland," replied Jonathan, coolly; "but I have
nothing to fear; because, in the first place, it will be to your advantage not to
molest me; and, in the second, I am provided against all contingencies. You shall have the spending of every penny of my
money. “I’m inclined to think, Stanley, myself that as a
matter of fact it was the expurgated Romeo and Juliet did the mischief. Heaven knows what dim and tawdry conceptions of passion and desire were
in that blond cranium, what romance-begotten dreams of intrigue and adventure!
but they sufficed, when presently Ann Veronica went out into the darkling street
again, to inspire a flitting, dogged pursuit, idiotic, exasperating, indecent. They had both been
unsuccessful. ”
Ann Veronica hesitated, and then stood in the open doorway and regarded her
father’s stern presence. "
"But, man, this chap hasn't fallen soft.
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