‘Let me tell you,’ went on the nun severely, ‘it would have been better for you
if you had taken the veil. “How do you know—why do you think that my name is
Anna?” He smiled in a quietly superior way. "I began to fear, from his having quitted the old place, that some misfortune
must have befallen him. Her canines had receded, but were still
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prominent. “You are the most perfect, the most glorious of created things—tender, frank
intellectual, brave, beautiful. Ann Veronica
found herself incompetent, undignified, and detestable, holding on desperately to
a hardening antagonism to her father, quarrelling with him, wrangling with him,
thinking of repartees—almost as if he was a brother. Pragmar, the wholesale druggist, who lived three gardens away, and who had
been mowing his lawn to get an appetite for dinner, standing in a fascinated
attitude beside the forgotten lawn-mower and watching her intently. He stared at the woman depicted thereon for a
long moment, awe in his head. “How do you know?”
“Well, it isn’t exactly a depressing state, is it?”
“YOU don’t know. I have pleaded
with her—no wonder that I have pleaded with her in vain. Your attitude to
me—”
He fell into a brown study. When first brought under consideration, she was a miserable and forlorn
object; squalid in attire, haggard in looks, and emaciated in frame. She left them and went
back to Sebastian, never uttering a word about her visit.
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