” “I suppose all men,” said Ann Veronica, in a tone of detached criticism, “get some such entanglement. This was unscrupulous, he admitted, because he had no intention of following through on the seductive promise in his conduct. —What do you know of Thames?— Where is he?" "Don't agitate yourself, dearest girl," rejoined the woollen-draper; "or I shall never be able to commence my relation. " "I am here in Canton," she replied, simply. But I don't look for peace on this side the grave. I want to do something. “Think of what Lady Palsworthy will say! Think of what”—So-and-so —“will say! What are we to tell people? “Besides, what am I to tell your father?” At first it had not been at all clear to Ann Veronica that she would refuse to return home; she had had some dream of a capitulation that should leave her an enlarged and defined freedom, but as her aunt put this aspect and that of her flight to her, as she wandered illogically and inconsistently from one urgent consideration to another, as she mingled assurances and aspects and emotions, it became clearer and clearer to the girl that there could be little or no change in the position of things if she returned. Prior to the great adventure, her mirrors had been the still pools in the rocks after the ebb. Sir John was not used to such glances, and he liked them.
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