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. Her father’s peculiar stiffness of soul presented itself now as something altogether left out of the calculations upon which her plans were based, and, in particular, she had not anticipated the difficulty she would find in borrowing the forty pounds she needed for Ramage. He was a man who in all things classified without nuance, and for him there were in the matter of age just two feminine classes and no more—girls and women. Had he found the secret door? Running to the centre, she tried to judge where the knocking came from. Darting quickly to the chest that contained the priest’s vestments, she leapt onto it and reached her arm down to scrabble behind it on the floor. For the first time a definite doubt possessed him. It was a charming sight to watch the motions of her tiny fingers as she pursued her task; and though the posture she adopted was not the most favourable that might have been chosen for the display of her sylphlike figure, there was something in her attitude, and the glow of her countenance, lighted up by the mellow radiance of the setting sun falling upon her through the panes of the little dormer-window, that seemed to the youth inexpressibly beautiful. He had plugged along, if not happy, at least with sound philosophy. " "Pray come to the point, Sir," said Mrs. “Just do it. ” Brendon went very pale. " "Only as a brother?" persisted Kneebone. Martin's on Ludgate-hill, and Christchurch in Newgate Street, were also distinguishable.
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