The women, Ann Veronica thought, were not quite so interesting as the men. She was an indignant queen, no doubt she was
alarmed and disgusted within limits; but she was highly excited, and there was
something, some low adventurous strain in her being, some element, subtle at
least if base, going about the rioting ways and crowded insurgent meeting-places
of her mind declaring that the whole affair was after all—they are the only words
that express it—a very great lark indeed. The doctor paced the room half a dozen times. Supper was
spaghetti and Italian sausage that night. Anna leaned over so that he needed only to whisper. She tried to imagine the collective effect of the Fadden Ball; she had never
seen a fancy-dress gathering in her life. ’
‘They wear a uniform, do they not? They march and fight with swords and
shoot with guns, no?’
‘Well, yes,
miss. “Not a penny—not one penny—and never
darken your doors again!”
Part 4
The next day her aunt came again and expostulated, and was just saying it was
“an unheard-of thing” for a girl to leave her home as Ann Veronica had done,
when her father arrived, and was shown in by the pleasant-faced landlady. "
"You can give me a little of his history, can't you? Something about his people?"
"Oh, his folks were all right. Small blame to her. “I think,” she said, “that I would rather not have anything to say about that man. "But this need give you no uneasiness," pursued Jonathan; "Mrs. "But I'm a
blackguard, too, Ruth. Ah Cum, sensing the difficulty, approached, recovered the damp handkerchief
and returned it. You and I will agree upon
the Ten Commandments; but perhaps we will refuse to accept the other's
interpretation of the ramifications.
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