“I wonder if it is. “I must live, you know. ”
“It was an inspiration—your speaking to him?”
“I felt impudent. I do not think you quite understand
my ideals or what is becoming as between father and daughter. For a long time he remained standing before
the fire, staring at the situation. “What do you think of them?”
Anna extended her critical survey and shrugged her shoulders. 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. The uncanny directness of those gray eyes, the absence of diffidence,
the beauty of the face in profile (full, it seemed a little too broad to make for
perfect beauty), the mellow voice that came full and free, without hesitance, all
combined to mark her as the most unusual young woman he had ever met. Say, that girl fooled me at first glance.
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