I had
special ways of getting out of the basement without them
noticing, and often I could smuggle a child or two out for
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the day and they were never the wiser. ‘But I have told you. ‘If you had met her, you’d understand. ”
The tall young man dropped his eye-glass and smiled. We can’t be lovers in the ordinary sense, but we can be
great and intimate friends. "
"Twenty pounds," rejoined Mrs. Fortescue had not much ability to keep her sister, and a
little while after her mother’s death Ann Veronica met Gwen suddenly on the
staircase coming from her father’s study, shockingly dingy in dusty mourning
and tearful and resentful, and after that Gwen receded from the Morningside
Park world, and not even the begging letters and distressful communications that
her father and aunt received, but only a vague intimation of dreadfulness, a
leakage of incidental comment, flashes of paternal anger at “that blackguard,”
came to Ann Veronica’s ears. Jolly nose! the bright rubies that garnish thy tip
Are dug from the mines of canary;
And to keep up their lustre I moisten my lip
With hogsheads of claret and sherry. He will be dependent on you. How dreary it all looks. “I speak from my heart, and
you answer from your brain. I'm a stickler about clothes and clean chins. “Are you aware, Ann Veronica, you nearly throttled that gentleman?”
Then she reviled her own foolish way of putting it.
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