“That sounds so uncouth,” she murmured. Trodger was lying in wait at the bottom of the narrow stairs. He was a stranger. He reached for her and she stroked his head soothingly as his mother had done a few times when he had suffered bad fevers. “I do not like to seem inhospitable, Anna,” she said hesitatingly. Her father’s ideas of expostulation were a little harsh and forcible, and over the claret-colored table-cloth and under the gas chandelier, with his hat and umbrella between them like the mace in Parliament, he and his daughter contrived to have a violent quarrel. " Out of the beaten track! thought Spurlock. 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. “You knew it,” he added, in her momentary silence. She had a few acquaintances, English gentlemen, but she lived with her sister—was a lady. The proceedings of this faction were narrowly watched by a vigilant and sagacious administration.
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