“I got Sydney’s telegram at ten o’clock, and caught the ten-thirty from the Gare du Nord. If Miss Charvill should take it into her head to dash off on some foolish errand, go with her by all means. His instinct was in the direction of considering his daughters his absolute property, bound to obey him, his to give away or his to keep to be a comfort in his declining years just as he thought fit. " "My courage gave out. I begin to understand Jane Austen and chintz covers and decency and refinement and all the rest of it. I would sooner see you in a ’bus again. “It was a bad day for me,” he said, speaking slowly and painfully. It was long and narrow, a well-lit, wellventilated, quiet gallery of small tables and sinks, pervaded by a thin smell of methylated spirit and of a mitigated and sterilized organic decay. One married as he wished and one against his wishes, and now here was Ann Veronica, his little Vee, discontented with her beautiful, safe, and sheltering home, going about with hatless friends to Socialist meetings and art-class dances, and displaying a disposition to carry her scientific ambitions to unwomanly lengths. Besides, I'm afraid her simple honesty will spoil any invented yarn. She gave me an impression of a sort of patched quilt; little bits of patterned stuff coming up again and again. Of course, at home there would have been questions. " A shadow, which was not cast by the jib, fell upon them both. “I wonder—I wonder if we shall ever get like that. She exhorted Ann Veronica not to become one of “those unsexed intellectuals, neither man nor woman.
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