And instead of accepting the situation
gratefully, he felt vaguely hurt!
One evening in September a proa rasped in upon the beach. To-night the subtle
suggestiveness of those few daring lines, fascinating in their very simplicity, the
head thrown back, the half-closed eyes—the inner meaning of the great artist
seemed to come to him with a rush. McClintock liked it. . He
had had five children at irregular intervals, of whom Ann Veronica was the
youngest, so that as a parent he came to her perhaps a little practised and jaded
and inattentive; and he called her his “little Vee,” and patted her unexpectedly
and disconcertingly, and treated her promiscuously as of any age between eleven
and eight-and-twenty. “Come,” he said, “you can’t be meaning to bury yourself. "Don't exchange glances with him under my very nose, woman!" shrieked Mrs. The Master of the Mint, in the exercise of his
two-fold office of governor and publican, was mounted upon a chair, and
holding forth to his guests in a speech, to which Mrs. Plain, wide-mouthed, freckled, and
ugly, she was an instantly jealous creature, her saving
grace that she took no pains to mask her extreme dislike
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of petite, pretty girls. But De Maupassant—sheer off! Stick to Dickens and
Thackeray and Hugo.
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