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Something in the child's voice, something in her manner, warned the spinster
that her well-meaning inquisitiveness had received a set-back and that it would
be dangerous to press it forward again. By Jove! When I think of it I want to leap and shout!”
“It would astonish that man with the barrow. 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. With your
pencil you see into the hearts of all; and without your pencil you are dumb and
blind. Whether they are loved or
unloved has no bearing upon this desire to test their wings, to try this new
adventure, to take this leap into the dark. Then he went on:
“—and, indeed, to most of the established things in life is, frankly,
unsatisfactory. Earles answered, glibly. It was
at the age of five, when it became clear that she would
not be followed by a brother, that he became more
distant towards her and stopped adoring her. .
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