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Chapter XIV
“THIS IS MY WIFE”
Anna, notwithstanding her momentary fright in the middle of the day, was in
high spirits. Just as they reached the end of the passage, they heard the voices of Jonathan
and the Jew in Thames's late place of confinement. "
"Who are you?" ejaculated Trenchard, scarcely able to credit his senses. Then she begins to
have visions of what is forbidden to all mortals:
knowledge of the future. ‘To the
contrary, I will have you to know something. She felt he would tell people the way, control traffic, and refuse
admission to public buildings with invincible correctness and the very finest
explicit feelings possible. Then she would have quiet times, in which she would say to herself, “Now
look here! Let me think it all out!”
For the first time, it seemed to her, she faced the facts of a woman’s position
in the world—the meagre realities of such freedom as it permitted her, the almost
unavoidable obligation to some individual man under which she must labor for
even a foothold in the world. Father and daughter
regarded each other warily, each more than a little insecure with the other. “The fact is—I don’t know why—this takes
me by surprise. Charity for the ragtag
and the bobtail of the Seven Seas, and none for his own flesh and blood. "
"Well, that's fine. I didn’t
believe him and I said so. "On Friday," he replied. ’ He grinned. ” Sebastian
replied merrily, his eyes fixed on the road.
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