She was supposed to be reading at home,
and after breakfast she strolled into the vegetable garden, and having taken up a
position upon the staging of a disused greenhouse that had the double advantage
of being hidden from the windows of the house and secure from the sudden
appearance of any one, she resumed the reading of Mr. If it came at all, it was
as fleeting as the girl's smile. I mean that the point is that vividness of perception is the essential factor of
beauty; but, of course, vividness may be created by a whisper. Why was she noting things like this? Capes seemed selfpossessed and elaborately genial and commonplace, but she knew him to be
nervous by a little occasional clumsiness, by the faintest shadow of vulgarity in
the urgency of his hospitality. I
had a perfect shoal of callers. ”
They went on for a time without another word. ”
“There IS something sound in that position,” said Capes, intervening as if to
defend Miss Garvice against a possible attack from Ann Veronica. She tried for
her usual confident tone, but only succeeded in sounding gruff, even to her own
ears. ”
“I love you with all my heart from the first day I saw
you. It was the only time she had ever hit
him, punched him right in the stomach like one of his
favorite Three Stooges episodes. Manning,
all this sort of thing is very well as sentiment, but does it correspond with the
realities? Are women truly such angelic things and men so chivalrous? You men
have, I know, meant to make us Queens and Goddesses, but in practice—well,
look, for example, at the stream of girls one meets going to work of a morning,
round-shouldered, cheap, and underfed! They aren’t queens, and no one is
treating them as queens. "
"Zounds!" exclaimed Wood; "it's my old master-key.
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