She did not so much deal with Ann
Veronica’s interpolations as dispose of them with quick and use-hardened
repartee, and then she went on with a fine directness to sketch the case for her
agitation, for that remarkable rebellion of the women that was then agitating the
whole world of politics and discussion. "So he may," rejoined Abraham, aloud, "so he may. What you want to do is to imagine every woman a
Becky Sharp and every man a Rawdon Crawley. She loved to be told to do things. He spent the remainder of the afternoon looking for a friend whom he found at
last in the billiard room of one of the smaller clubs to which he belonged. Jack's appearance was hailed with the loudest cheers, but when Jonathan
followed and took a place beside him in the vehicle, determined, he said, never
to lose sight of him, the abhorrence of the multitude was expressed by
execrations, hoots, and yells of the most terrific kind. "
"I don't require it," returned Sheppard. Only one thing emerged with
any reasonable clarity in her mind at once, and that was that unless she was
saved from drowning by an unmarried man, in which case the ceremony is
unavoidable, or totally destitute of under-clothing, and so driven to get a
trousseau, in which hardship a trousseau would certainly be “ripping,” marriage
was an experience to be strenuously evaded. "I am
accounted a fair shot, as well as a tolerable swordsman, and I will give proof of
my skill in both lines, should occasion require it. .
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