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" "I didn't want it," replied Jack; "but who are those gentlemen?" "Friends of yours," replied Figg; "come to see you;—Sir James Thornhill, Mr. Ann Veronica found herself walking back down the Avenue that had just been the scene of her first proposal beside her aunt, and speculating for the first time in her life about that lady’s mental attitudes. She arrived about nine o’clock the next evening in a state of tremulous enthusiasm. It seemed to her the last desperate attack upon the universe that would not let her live as she desired to live, that penned her in and controlled her and directed her and disapproved of her, the same invincible wrappering, the same leaden tyranny of a universe that she had vowed to overcome after that memorable conflict with her father at Morningside Park. " "I will obey you, master,—indeed I will!" implored Jack, seriously alarmed at the carpenter's calm displeasure. As if we didn’t know! The practical trouble is our ages. She took refuge in beating her pillow and inventing insulting epithets for herself. " "A promise to my mother?" said Winifred, unsuspiciously. ‘How in God’s name did the wretched fellow get in then?’ ‘Dug a tunnel?’ suggested Gerald, halting next to a pair of French windows at the front. Then her head disappeared suddenly in her hands, and her shoulders shook violently. She stood looking down upon him with dilated eyes. I have suspected him of possessing a skeleton key to my apartments. 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.
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