She was aware of the body of the court, of clerks seated at a black
table littered with papers, of policemen standing about stiffly with expressions of
conscious integrity, and a murmuring background of the heads and shoulders of
spectators close behind her. Annabel
watched her with wide-open, terrified eyes. She realized more and more the
quality of the brink upon which she stood—the dreadful readiness with which in
certain moods she might plunge, the unmitigated wrongness and recklessness of
such a self-abandonment. ” She agreed. ‘You are an avid reader, I take it. "One motive alone shall induce me to go on with you," said Jack. Either it was an unfortunate recovery of a trail, or he had followed her
from Mayfair. You’re like some splendid Princess in Exile in these Dreadful
Dingy apartments!”
“I’m afraid I’m anything but a Princess when it comes to earning a salary,”
said Ann Veronica. I
thought that you were he. ”
“I thought Mr. "Is this Jack Sheppard? Oh, la! I'm undone!
We shall all have our throats cut! Oh! oh!" And she rushed, screaming, into the
passage where she fell down in a fit. 148
“Sure. She was still more stirred
by the idea of the equal citizenship of men and women, by the realization that a
big and growing organization of women were giving form and a generalized
expression to just that personal pride, that aspiration for personal freedom and
respect which had brought her to London; but when she heard Miss Miniver
discoursing on the next step in the suffrage campaign, or read of women
badgering Cabinet Ministers, padlocked to railings, or getting up in a public
meeting to pipe out a demand for votes and be carried out kicking and
screaming, her soul revolted. If morality
means anything it means keeping bounds, respecting implications, respecting
implicit bounds. The hope that had been suddenly kindled in the youth's bosom was as suddenly
extinguished.
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