Books! Aren't they wonderful?"
The blind alley of life stretching out before her, with its secret doorways and
hidden menaces; and she was unconcerned. She kept opening her eyes and looking at it. ‘Thought it was downright wicked to
keep you ignorant of your proper background. “Look here, father,” she said, with a change in her voice, “suppose I won’t
stand it?”
He regarded her as though this was a new idea. She was reasonably
certain why. He did not notice that Ann Veronica was preoccupied
and heavy-eyed. ‘If, in truth, you are a gentleman,’ she said in a trembling tone, ‘you will move
to the side that I may leave this room. "
"An excellent maxim!" replied his wife, approvingly; "the best I ever heard you
utter. "Excuse me," he said, plunging his fork into a fowl, and transferring it to his
plate. But—he was
cleverer than any of you. He loved the sea, and could
give a good account of himself in any weather. He
would ask her to come to dinner with him in some little Italian or semiBohemian restaurant in the district toward Soho, or in one of the more stylish
and magnificent establishments about Piccadilly Circus, and for the most part
she did not care to refuse. She had never been to the opera before except as one of a
congested mass of people in the cheaper seats, and with backs and heads and
women’s hats for the frame of the spectacle; there was by contrast a fine large
sense of space and ease in her present position.
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