And now, a fair exchange, Sir. Fortescue had not much ability to keep her sister, and a little while after her mother’s death Ann Veronica met Gwen suddenly on the staircase coming from her father’s study, shockingly dingy in dusty mourning and tearful and resentful, and after that Gwen receded from the Morningside Park world, and not even the begging letters and distressful communications that her father and aunt received, but only a vague intimation of dreadfulness, a leakage of incidental comment, flashes of paternal anger at “that blackguard,” came to Ann Veronica’s ears. “We have been all this time—Only your queer code of honor—Honor! Once you begin with love you have to see it through. Anna had told me that he carried always with him this bogus marriage certificate. Springing to his feet in an ecstasy of terror, he stumbled, and had well nigh realized his worst apprehensions. His features were regular, and finely-formed; his complexion bright and blooming,—a little shaded, however, by travel and exposure to the sun; and, with a praiseworthy contempt for the universal and preposterous fashion then prevailing, of substituting a peruke for the natural covering of the head, he allowed his own dark-brown hair to fall over his shoulders in ringlets as luxuriant as those that distinguished the court gallant in Charles the Second's days—a fashion, which we do not despair of seeing revived in our own days. The Becks were the best foster family that she had ever had. But perhaps he was right not to tell you the truth. He was dressed with the utmost care, and he set his feet upon the broad walk as though the action were in some way a condescension. ” “It isn’t necessary,” they both declared breathlessly. He was almost frightening in silhouette, his hair uncontrollable under the best of circumstances, but that changed when you saw his face.
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