Some had the dignity and the aloofness of a rock in the sea; and others were as the polished pebbles on the sands—one saw the difference of pebble from pebble only by close scrutiny. They struck her as cold and indifferent. ‘Her purpose, if you will believe me, is to get herself a dowry so that she may marry an Englishman. But calmer thoughts quickly succeeded. They had asked her to come to the first of the two great annual Fadden Dances, the October one, and Ann Veronica had accepted with enthusiasm. She spent many days in the castle alone as he busied himself with his alchemy, or traveled to Florence to visit his remaining political connections. Let me put the main question to you now that I could not put the other afternoon. Your purposes are defeated. ” Ann Veronica felt a slight embarrassment. The air might be cool, but half an hour without head-gear was an invitation to sunstroke. And here, we may be permitted to offer an observation upon the peculiar and unaccountable influence which ladies of a shrewish turn so frequently exercise over—we can scarcely, in this case, say—their lords and masters; an influence which seems not merely to extend to the will of the husband, but even to his inclinations. They went on talking in the train—it seemed to her father a slight want of deference to him—and he listened and pretended to read the Times.
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