Carefully abstaining from thrusting against each other, Ann Veronica and her father began an absurdly desperate struggle, the one to open the door, the other to keep it fastened. If she has no children, she goes on loving her husband; but he is no longer a man but a child. But a far greater affliction was in store for her. He looked across at Annabel, and he groaned. From this night I shall pursue a different course; from this night his ruin may be dated. “You asked me in to tea,” he protested. "I am so excessively fond of snuff. Both had dropped the rather elaborate politeness of the dining-room, and in their faces an impartial observer would have discovered little lines of obstinate wilfulness in common; a certain hardness—sharp, indeed, in the father and softly rounded in the daughter—but hardness nevertheless, that made every compromise a bargain and every charity a discount. If this is true, it must be owned that the boy's mouth showed a strong tendency on his part to coarse indulgence. She slipped out the window, jumping to the ground from the second story with very little sound. She was enchanted by the beauty of the other girls, who were magically transformed into fairies and elves by makeup into seemingly unfamiliar yet glamorous new people. She was a woman now to the tips of her fingers; she had said good-bye to her girlhood in the old garden four years and a quarter ago.
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