“Will you come this way,” she said, “into the drawing-room? There is no one there just now. I’ll give you an uncrossed check, and then you can get it at the bank here, quite close by. “What a hideous repertoire! If you are in earnest about wanting to earn money, why on earth don’t you accept an engagement here?” “An engagement?” she queried. " Spurlock turned aside his head as he replied: "Words are sometimes useless things. On her lapel was an ivory button, bearing the words “Votes for Women. “And what on earth,” he said, “do you think the world is made of? Why do you think I have been doing things for you? The abstract pleasure of goodness? Are you one of the members of that great white sisterhood that takes and does not give? The good accepting woman! Do you really suppose a girl is entitled to live at free quarters on any man she meets without giving any return?” “I thought,” said Ann Veronica, “you were my friend. As Leonardo had himself pronounced, who better than a mountebank to teach of the perils awaiting the unwary? Who better than a wastrel to demonstrate the worth of thrift? And who could instruct better in the matter of affections than one who had thrown them away? ‘If he had loved me,’ she said, in the flat tone she had learned to use to conceal her vulnerable heart, ‘he would have left me at Remenham House to live a life of an English lady. A crisis of some kind was toward. " "I firmly believe he has dealings with the devil," replied Austin, trembling from head to foot.
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