He dressed rather after the fashion of the West End than the City, and
affected a cultured urbanity that somehow disconcerted and always annoyed Ann
Veronica’s father extremely. The curtain before one mystery was torn aside, and she saw in reality
what lay behind the impulse that had led her into the young man's room. She had been built
for canvas and oil-lamps, and this new thingumajig that kept her nose snoring at
eight knots when normally she was able to boil along at ten, and these
unblinking things they called lamps (that neither smoked nor smelled), irked and
threatened to ruin her temper. Tender with the sick, firm with the strong, fearless, with a
body that had the resistance of iron, there was nothing of the hypocrite in him. Manning, Lady Palsworthy’s nephew, a tall young man of seven-and-thirty with
a handsome, thoughtful, impassive face, a full black mustache, and a certain
heavy luxuriousness of gesture. He
was alarmed when she returned to the stage and her eyes
passed over him in the audience. Gianfrancesco’s had
curved differently and was darker. It is
not for myself I fear. "What of her?" exclaimed Jack, starting up. . He’s riding down the drive.
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