The very facts that Miss Miniver never stated an argument clearly, that she
was never embarrassed by a sense of self-contradiction, and had little more
respect for consistency of statement than a washerwoman has for wisps of vapor,
which made Ann Veronica critical and hostile at their first encounter in
Morningside Park, became at last with constant association the secret of Miss
Miniver’s growing influence. Secretly she was gratified to be
assigned to the rôle of an old traveller. "Now your curiosity's satisfied, child," continued Kneebone, "perhaps, you'll
attend to my orders. "
"You shall—you shall," answered Jack. “You are very good,” she said. “I guess I’m not
the only one who wonders about your past. We’ll
have some buttered toast. This was
no light conquest; nor was it a government easily maintained. Besides, revenge is sweetened by delay; and I indulge
too freely in the passion to rob it of any of its zest. The real ‘Alcide’,” she wound up with a faint smile
across the table at him, “is here.
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