The Supper at Mr. (Fifteen pounds! And she wanted forty!)
Part 4
It was, perhaps, the natural consequence of a long and tiring and exciting day
that Ann Veronica should pass a broken and distressful night, a night in which
the noble and self-subduing resolutions of Canongate displayed themselves for
the first time in an atmosphere of almost lurid dismay. 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. She so wanted
to keep her memory of him fresh, so wanted to memorize
his kisses and to conjure his embrace someday when he
was mere dust in the ground. Has he given you the tools?"
"He has," replied Bess, producing the handkerchief. She bent down. Perhaps Ferringhall has pensioned her off. My boys buy them with beads or bolts
of calico of mine. Her
elbows were ready. ‘Only perhaps I can more readily do so if you will put down that
pistol. Owing to this circumstance, Mr. Manning. "Release your prisoner," continued Wood, "or the window is opened. I am one of those people who are interested in women, more
interested than I am in anything else. The old-fashioned dress, with its series
of ruffles and printed flowers, ballooned treacherously, revealing her well-turned
leg in silk stockings, as it snapped against her body as a mould.
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