"Close the door!" commanded Trenchard, impatiently. More often then not he refused to reveal
specifics of his own past in Greece and Rome, choosing
to relate fables and stories of an impersonal nature. It seemed to her the last desperate attack upon the universe that would not
let her live as she desired to live, that penned her in and controlled her and
directed her and disapproved of her, the same invincible wrappering, the same
leaden tyranny of a universe that she had vowed to overcome after that
memorable conflict with her father at Morningside Park. It was hard
to resist. "Stand aside, Tom," commanded Kneebone. Ann Veronica thought the whole
affair rather jolly. ”
“Not exactly,” he answered nervously. Her lips came together with
an expression between contentment and the faintest shadow of a smile, her
manner was one of quiet reserve, and behind this mask she was wildly
discontented and eager for freedom and life. She looked down
at him and was amazed to see him erect again, amazed at
the incredible virility that he possessed. It comforts him when he is most forlorn. “I don’t think you realize,” Ann Veronica began again, “that I am rather a
defective human being. From the unlovely hillside his glance strayed to the several five-story towers of
the pawnshops. He
reached out a hand gropingly, sagged, and toppled out of the chair to the floor,
where he lay very still.
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