‘Charvill?’ uttered Roding frowningly. Even the teachers were
getting restless, the seniors gnawing hard at the bit as
graduation teased. Ann Veronica was by this time quite shocked at her own thoughts, and yet
they would go on with their freaks. Everything in the world to live for!—fame that he could not reap, love that he
must not take! What was all this pother about hell as a future state?
By and by things began to stir on the table: little invisible things. Her mind turned to her own future, the
endless trickle of years. ‘I must, for that the pig has already gone to monsieur le baron. And then, as she answered nothing, “Seeing that we are lovers. She loved the market, the horses
trotting about, the bishops forced to be on the same road
with old washer-women, the fools begging for a Florin or
a ducat. But that other world, in spite of her resolute exclusion of it, was always
looking round corners and peeping through chinks and crannies, and rustling and
raiding into the order in which she chose to live, shining out of pictures at her,
echoing in lyrics and music; it invaded her dreams, it wrote up broken and
enigmatical sentences upon the passage walls of her mind. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with
some man?”
“What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad
as to go off alone?”
“After—after what had happened the night before?”
“Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face
as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the
very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and
there, sure enough, was yours. She was recalling the
circumstances under which she had engaged herself to Manning, and trying to
understand a curious development of the quality of this relationship.
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