Her teachers
and mistresses had done their best to stamp her mind with an ineradicable
persuasion that it was tremendously important, and on no account to be thought
about. Goopes had a great set-to about the sincerity of Chesterton and
Belloc that was ended by Goopes showing signs of resuming the Socratic
method. “Now, there, there. ‘Oh, peste. Who could say that the girl's father had not once been
a fashionable clergyman in the States and that drink had got him and forced him
down, step by step, until—to use the child's odd expression—he had come upon
the beach? She was cynical, this spinster. ‘I begin to ask myself why it is that I
wish to become of these people. God help me. The proposal is
so far from being exorbitant, that it should be trebled if I had not a fellow-feeling
in the cause. Grasping one
of chairs about the little table, he drew it forward and sat astride it, in a fashion
as insolent as it was unexpected. "I'm an ungrateful dog!"
"You will be if you don't instantly kiss me the way you used to. Can you
imagine how dreadful it must be for them? Most of them arrive here almost
penniless.
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