Her usual dignified reserve had availed her nothing. "But if it is your mother, send her about her business. 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. The little girl uttered no remonstrance; but, replacing the flowers in the basket, burst into tears, and withdrew. Not content with this exhibition of her prowess, the Amazon lifted him up as easily as if he had been an infant, and placed him upon her shoulders, to the infinite delight of the company, and the increased distress of his mother. Her aunt had a once exasperating habit of interrupting her work with demands for small household services, but now Ann Veronica rendered them with a queer readiness of anticipatory propitiation. The doctor would naturally offer a hundred objections; he might seriously interfere; so he must be forestalled. She would be haunted by the visions of their mad faces in her dreams for the next hundred years. He had heard this talk before. He pictured himself visiting the girl in this shabby little home of her aunt’s—she had told him that it was shabby—and he recalled that delicious little smile with which she would surely greet him, a smile which seemed to be a matter of the eyes as well as the lips. ” “And you can’t?” “I don’t think I ought to control myself. Had to give up the work and take to this. " "Tush!" cried Thames; "you accused me to skreen yourself. Another labyrinth in hell!" A smile broke over the trader's face.
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