Fortescue had not much ability to keep her sister, and a
little while after her mother’s death Ann Veronica met Gwen suddenly on the
staircase coming from her father’s study, shockingly dingy in dusty mourning
and tearful and resentful, and after that Gwen receded from the Morningside
Park world, and not even the begging letters and distressful communications that
her father and aunt received, but only a vague intimation of dreadfulness, a
leakage of incidental comment, flashes of paternal anger at “that blackguard,”
came to Ann Veronica’s ears. “It’s a new phase in the life history,” he remarked. "He is all alone. Maggot, drawing up her fine figure to its full height;
"because I condescend to live with you, am I never to look at another man,—
especially at one so much to my taste as this? Don't think it!"
"You had better retire, Madam," said the woollen-draper, sharply, "if you can't
conduct yourself with more propriety. If you forget your sex, jade, I must forget mine. She had recourse to the torn off strip of petticoat again, and blowing her nose
with an air of determination, sniffed back the tears. That’s probably true. “Hill’s confession will finally refute a number of absurd stories which have been
in circulation during the last few days. "
Many wrinkles appeared at the corners of Ah Cum's slant eyes—as if the sun
hurt—but the rest of his face remained as passive as a graven Buddha's. ’
A peal of delighted laughter greeted this threat. Wood; "here's a pretty to-do about nothing.
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