Fortescue had not much ability to keep her sister, and a
little while after her mother’s death Ann Veronica met Gwen suddenly on the
staircase coming from her father’s study, shockingly dingy in dusty mourning
and tearful and resentful, and after that Gwen receded from the Morningside
Park world, and not even the begging letters and distressful communications that
her father and aunt received, but only a vague intimation of dreadfulness, a
leakage of incidental comment, flashes of paternal anger at “that blackguard,”
came to Ann Veronica’s ears. ”
He dropped his eye-glass with a clatter. ‘Civilian peace-keeping
forces, you know. Young and old were dressed in their gayest
apparel; and it was evident from the smiles that lighted up every countenance,
from the roguish looks of the younger swains, and the demure expression of
several pretty rustic maidens, that a ceremony, which never fails to interest all
classes,—a wedding,—was about to take place. There was no disgust in Ruth's heart, only an infinite pity; for only the
pitiful understand. It had ceased raining, but the atmosphere was moist and chill,
and the ground deluged by the recent showers. You know I call that positively wicked. “Then you—you will?”
A long pause. Sheppard raised her eyes, and fixed them upon her interrogator. “A volatile temperament—yes, a volatile temperament,” Mr. Annabel had spoken calmly enough and steadily, but his brain refused at first to
accept the full meaning of her words. And she would have rushed to him, if she
had not been forcibly withheld by her son. And how much I owe
you, too, dearest Winifred, for your kindness and attention. Would that a
certain major might cast upon her such a look.
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