207 She romanced a dark-haired farmer a few times, having long since forgotten his name. “Veronique!” she cried with a rising intonation, though never before had she called Ann Veronica anything but Miss Stanley, and seized her and squeezed her and kissed her with profound emotion. “Your father is dead too, I believe,” he continued, “and your mother. His hand went with an almost instinctive inquiry to his jawbone again. If you attempt to play the traitor, you will do so at the hazard of your life. One realized indeed then where the differences lay; the tender curves about Anna’s mouth transformed into hard sharp lines in Annabel’s, the eyes of one, truthful and frank, the other’s more beautiful but with less expression—windows lit with dazzling light, but through which one saw—nothing. She winced when first she heard the preparation-room door open and Capes came down the laboratory; but when at last he reached her she was self-possessed. A remittance man. I offered myself as a clerk, as a milliner, as a shop girl. “Well,” said Capes, at length, “we’ve to go down, Ann Veronica. He stood a little anxious and fussy, bothered by the responsibility of her, entirely careless of what her life was or was likely to be, ignoring her thoughts and feelings, ignorant of every fact of importance in her life, explaining everything he could not understand in her as nonsense and perversity, concerned only with a terror of bothers and undesirable situations. Thus, we do not necessarily keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition.
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