”
“You are very good, Mr. During the foregoing occurrences a dead calm prevailed. All our fraternity are afraid of
him; but I laugh at his threats. It was his redemption, his ticket out of hell—that blue-serge coat. Apparently she was always doomed to weep when
she talked to her father. ’
There was a silence. ’
‘Yes, and it seems to me a very strange thing that he interferes all the time in
my affairs when I do not want him to do so,’ Melusine said aggrievedly, ‘and the
very first time that I wish him in truth to rescue me, he is not there. Later, she
understood his reasons; and it had now become habit. “He will probably make a
statement to-night. “These are the
playgrounds of life. “Compromise—and kindness. She looked at Lucy guiltily, wondering if she
would be betrayed. Were I a painter of subject pictures, I would exhaust all my skill in proportion
and perspective and atmosphere upon the august seat of empire, I would present
it gray and dignified and immense and respectable beyond any mere verbal
description, and then, in vivid black and very small, I would put in those
valiantly impertinent vans, squatting at the base of its altitudes and pouring out a
swift, straggling rush of ominous little black objects, minute figures of
determined women at war with the universe. It was a
cheerful, irresponsible, shamelessly hard-up family in the key of faded green and
flattened purple, and the girls went on from the High School to the Fadden Art
School and a bright, eventful life of art student dances, Socialist meetings,
theatre galleries, talking about work, and even, at intervals, work; and ever and
again they drew Ann Veronica from her sound persistent industry into the circle
of these experiences.
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