Huge trees obscured the view of it. Part 5
She had sent her father a telegram from the East Strand post-office worded
thus:
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All
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is
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well
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with
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and
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quite
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safe
| Veronica |
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me
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and afterward she had dined a la carte upon a cutlet, and had then set herself
to write an answer to Mr. “Holcroft,” he remarked, “in bald language, and with the usual limitations of his
clouded intellect, has still given some slight expression to the consternation
which I believe I may say is general amongst us. ’
Her conversation was wonderful, Gerald decided. It was a bogus affair
altogether, kept by some blackguard or other of an Englishman. But a man’s opposition always inclined
her to the suffrage side; she had a curious feeling of loyalty in seeing the more
aggressive women through. This time she was indeed beaten. Martha had grumbled at being obliged to report
the matter to Mother Josephine, who had decreed that Melusine must confess to
Father Saint-Simon. She thought
her niece very hard and very self-possessed and self-confident. Stanley, “I am anxious. ‘Damn you, what’s the matter with you?’ he snapped in frustration. I make no apology for not being with you now.
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