She made up her
mind in the train home that it should be a decisive crisis. But the
lady was not so easily won; and though she did not absolutely reject him, gave
him very slight hopes. Whatever he did, she was bound
to scream. “I wonder,” said Ann Veronica at last, “if I am beautiful? I wonder if I shall
ever shine like a light, like a translucent goddess?—
“I wonder—
“I suppose girls and women have prayed for this, have come to this—In
Babylon, in Nineveh. The roof was partially
untiled; the chimneys were tottering; the side-walls bulged, and were supported
by a piece of timber propped against the opposite house; the glass in most of the
windows was broken, and its place supplied with paper; while, in some cases,
the very frames of the windows had been destroyed, and the apertures were left
free to the airs of heaven. " New? That did not
describe her. Go easy. In a very definite sense we are in the wrong
—hopelessly in the wrong. If you had not brought your companion
here, it would not have happened. It surprises you. ”
Presently, as if for comparison with her father’s letter, she got out Ramage’s
check from the box that contained her papers. Would to God I had. After we have got the Vote and are recognized as citizens, then we can
come to all these other things. The whole of that
relationship persisted in remaining obscure.
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