“Not a penny—not one penny—and never
darken your doors again!”
Part 4
The next day her aunt came again and expostulated, and was just saying it was
“an unheard-of thing” for a girl to leave her home as Ann Veronica had done,
when her father arrived, and was shown in by the pleasant-faced landlady. For a long time there had been a standing offer
from the company at Copeley's to take over the McClintock plantation; and today he had decided to sell. You shall behold him. Against the walls hung an assortment of staves,
brown-bills, (weapons then borne by the watch,) muskets, handcuffs, great-coats,
and lanterns. He would never recognize me now. You represented to us the immaculate
Briton, the one Englishman who typified the Saxonism, if I may coin a word, of
our race. To return was impossible,—to raise
himself certain destruction. “The white unaggressive woman who corrects and nurses and serves, and is
worshipped and betrayed—the martyr-queen of men, the white mother. ’
‘Very good, ma’am. After all, why should I care what strangers think?" Ruth asked
with sudden heat. I'm no mollycoddle. You
can’t do that sort of thing unless you do it over religion, and there’s no religion
in me—of that sort—worth a rap.
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