Ascertaining that it was Sheppard of whom this concourse
was in pursuit, the two horsemen leapt the hedge, and were presently close upon
him. “I’m a vampire. Then she would have quiet times, in which she would say to herself, “Now
look here! Let me think it all out!”
For the first time, it seemed to her, she faced the facts of a woman’s position
in the world—the meagre realities of such freedom as it permitted her, the almost
unavoidable obligation to some individual man under which she must labor for
even a foothold in the world. “Look here,” he cried out of a silence, with a sudden flash of understanding,
“did you mean to throw me over when you came out with me this afternoon?”
Ann Veronica hesitated, and with a startled mind realized the truth. Miss Moffatt, the history and moral instruction
mistress, was particularly explicit upon this score, and they all agreed in
indicating contempt and pity for girls whose minds ran on such matters, and who
betrayed it in their conversation or dress or bearing. He touched it again, and this time it was not
withdrawn. He succeeded so well that they were almost in Montague Street before Anna
stopped short. Why, is the
question I would like answered. It shall
never be said that I raised my arm willingly against a woman. He temporized, and the girl raised her eyes once
more to his. "She's glorious!" He knew that he must hoodwink this keeneyed Scot, even as he must hoodwink everybody: publicly, the devoted husband;
privately, the celibate. She hoped that he would at long last
remember his young male pride. Spurlock halted in his tracks. "
The girl smiled and began to munch a sandwich. When first brought under consideration, she was a miserable and forlorn
object; squalid in attire, haggard in looks, and emaciated in frame.
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