Ruth
could tell the doctor; she could bare many of her innermost thoughts to that
kindly man; but there was an inexplicable reserve before this young man whom
she still endued with the melancholy charm of Sydney Carton. Teddy Widgett hovered on the
fringe of all these gatherings, blinking at Ann Veronica and occasionally making
a wildly friendly dash at her, and carrying her and Miss Miniver off to drink
cocoa with a choice diversity of other youthful and congenial Fabians after the
meetings. Part 3
Ann Veronica’s father was a solicitor with a good deal of company business: a
lean, trustworthy, worried-looking, neuralgic, clean-shaven man of fifty-three,
with a hard mouth, a sharp nose, iron-gray hair, gray eyes, gold-framed glasses,
and a small, circular baldness at the crown of his head. It was only some hours after that these ambiguous elements evaporated and
vanished and loathing came, and she really began to be thoroughly sick and
ashamed of the whole disgraceful quarrel and scuffle. She felt he was
going to say something more—something still more personal and intimate. What is he—English
or American?"
"American. ‘Come, cry
a truce. ”
Sir John, frankly oblivious of the possibility of passers-by, took her into his arms
and kissed her.
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