CHAPTER XXVII
His idea, cleverly planned, was to shatter her resistance, to confound her
suddenly by striking her mind with words which would rob her coherent
thought. I could never
make you understand. Each arm of the blouse had the
faintest of rings around the elbow, a stain that looked
familiar. There had been disappointments and humiliations, and
although she hated to admit it even to herself, she was in desperate straits. “But a boy—a boy goes out into the world and presently stands on his own
feet. “Of course it is, Anna. "Ah, I see it all!" he cried, with a quick
glance. "
Half an hour later she laid aside the book. There is so little abandon, so little real joyousness. Anthony, when
God Himself had found only one man strong enough for that! McClintock shook
his head violently, as if to dismiss this dream he was having. She had dreaded the beginning of
this hour. "
"He is certainly extremely youthful-looking and very slightly made," said
Thornhill, who had been attentively studying Sheppard's countenance. He boasted of her ability to learn to men who were a
stone’s throw from having the power of the pope himself.
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