" "A friend is not so soon gained as lost," replied Wood; "but how has the prediction been fulfilled, Joan, eh?" "I thought you would have guessed, Sir," replied the widow, timidly. Observe it—a blue-serge coat. He himself, middle-aged, steeped in traditions of the City and moneymaking, very ill-skilled in all the lighter graces of life, as he himself well knew, could yet come to her invested with something of the halo of romance by the almost magical powers of an unlimited banking account. He lowered her neck before her, and she noticed a bizarre urge to bite him rising from her mind like an itch. Here, where every element of her surroundings was tawdry and commonplace, and before this young man of vulgar origin and appearance, it was striking. Ann Veronica had had some training at the Tredgold College in disentangling threads from confused statements, and she had a curious persuasion that in all this fluent muddle there was something—something real, something that signified. " "It was the knowledge of this feeling on your part, my love, that made me act without your express sanction. I think we will soon, though. . The world isn’t ready for girls to start out on their own yet; that’s the plain fact of the case. The girl, with a little moan, crossed the room and threw open the window. But ere the words could find utterance, her maternal tenderness overcame her indignation; and, sinking upon her knees, she extended her arms over her child. . I suppose I believe in God.
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