The service had not proceeded far, when she was greatly disturbed by the
entrance of a person who placed himself opposite her, and sought to attract her
attention by a number of little arts, surveying her, as he did so, with a very
impudent and offensive stare. “And what on earth,” he said, “do you think
the world is made of? Why do you think I have been doing things for you? The
abstract pleasure of goodness? Are you one of the members of that great white
sisterhood that takes and does not give? The good accepting woman! Do you
really suppose a girl is entitled to live at free quarters on any man she meets
without giving any return?”
“I thought,” said Ann Veronica, “you were my friend. ”
“The faults are the best part of it,” said Ann Veronica; “why, even our little
vicious strains run the same way. ‘What is it?’
‘Er—shouldn’t I tell—I mean, the young lady, sir—’
‘You can leave the young lady to me. ”
“Sir John is an ass!” he declared. ’
So saying, she threw a meaning look over her shoulder at Lucilla, much to
Gerald’s approval. All this was the work of a minute. She found it
rather funny that he always wore the shirt fastidiously
tucked in and never wore the ensemble without a stiff
brown leather belt.
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