“‘A SONG OF LADIES AND MY LADY
“‘Saintly white and a lily is Mary,
Margaret’s violets, sweet and shy;
Green and dewy is Nellie-bud fairy,
Forget-me-nots live in Gwendolen’s eye. Ann Veronica jumped up to get her the cardtable. My mother, I'm sure, didn't intend to
hurt your feelings. "
Mrs. To take Spring and Love out of her life, as if there were
no human instincts to tell Ruth what was being denied her! And what must have
been the man's thought as he came upon Ruth wearing a gown of her mother's?
—a fair picture of the mother in the primrose days? Not a flicker of an eyelash;
steel and granite outwardly. He never felt any need
to explain himself. "
"The woman I mean did not join the assault," rejoined the Master, "but rather
seemed to shun observation; and, from the hasty glimpse I caught of her, she
appeared to have a child in her arms. None of the things they said and did were altogether new to Ann Veronica, but
now she got them massed and alive, instead of by glimpses or in books—alive
and articulate and insistent. ‘She won’t. He probably imagines himself to be a
thousand times worse off than he actually is. She wondered wildly why she had stood up. ”
“How?”
“Well—a little clumsily. This smile warned the
doctor not to underestimate the man. “What
have I been all this time?” she asked herself, and answered, “Just stark egotism,
crude assertion of Ann Veronica, without a modest rag of religion or discipline
or respect for authority to cover me!”
It seemed to her as though she had at last found the touchstone of conduct. It has become a part of the order of my life.
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