“I suppose a girl MUST be underpaid and sweated,” said Ann Veronica. At this moment she was staring ahead; and again came the opportunity to study her. She was never announced as ‘Alcide,’ but directly she walked on she simply became ‘Alcide’ to every one. She was dressed in a tattered black stuff gown, discoloured by various stains, and intended, it would seem, from the remnants of rusty crape with which it was here and there tricked out, to represent the garb of widowhood, and held in her arms a sleeping infant, swathed in the folds of a linsey-woolsey shawl. The call of youth to youth, and we name it love for want of something better: a glamorous, evanescent thing "like snow upon the desert's dusty face, lighting a little hour or two, was gone. She walked down the station approach, past the neat, obtrusive offices of the coal merchant and the house agent, and so to the wicket-gate by the butcher’s shop that led to the field path to her home. His instinct was in the direction of considering his daughters his absolute property, bound to obey him, his to give away or his to keep to be a comfort in his declining years just as he thought fit. ‘Though we might have done, if a certain addlepated clothhead hadn’t let her get away.
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