You don’t happen to know of any one, I
suppose, who wants a nursery governess, or a clerk—without shorthand—or a
tryer-on, or a copyist, or——”
“For Heaven’s sake stop, Miss Pellissier,” he interrupted. Jonathan, however, was nowhere to be seen. "You begin to have doubts, eh? A handful of money between you, and nothing
else. A girl of fifteen or sixteen gave her a handbill that she regarded as a tract
until she saw “Votes for Women” at the top. ”
“Climbing?”
“Yes. “Oh! please don’t lose yourself in a wilderness of secondary considerations,”
she said. Did she suppose him a possible pretender to her daughter’s
hand? The girl—Dorothée, if memory served—was clearly marriageable, but he
imagined most of these unhappy exiles were all but penniless. He recalled with exasperating perplexity her clear, matter-of-fact tone as she
talked about love-making being unconvincing. ‘She won’t confide in you? Now, why?’
‘Because that scoundrel Leonardo drummed it into her head that no man was
to be trusted,’ Gerald announced viciously. “I remember it very well indeed.
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