“And what on earth,” he said, “do you think the world is made of? Why do you think I have been doing things for you? The abstract pleasure of goodness? Are you one of the members of that great white sisterhood that takes and does not give? The good accepting woman! Do you really suppose a girl is entitled to live at free quarters on any man she meets without giving any return?” “I thought,” said Ann Veronica, “you were my friend. His countenance was almost as white and rigid as that of the corpse by his side. I wouldn't keep an apprentice to set my authority at defiance. ‘Let us go elsewhere and discuss the matter. To her satisfaction, the captain reddened a trifle. I have two days in which to earn nearly thirty shillings—that is with no dinners, and get a situation. What was it in her heart or mind or soul that went out to this man? Music—was that it? Was he powerless to stir her without the gift? But hadn't he fascinated her by his talk, gentle and winning? Ah, but that had been after he had played for her. He kissed her ardently. Her mother had prepared her for everything. One main avenue was for her to become a sort of salaried accessory wife or mother, to be a governess or an assistant schoolmistress, or a very high type of governess-nurse. “Ugh!” she said.
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