Leaving the panel wide, Melusine dashed to the library door and flung it open, racing into the hall. 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. The little girl uttered no remonstrance; but, replacing the flowers in the basket, burst into tears, and withdrew. And now," she added, glancing contemptuously at the woollen-draper, "I'll go to Jack Sheppard. Every movable mirror had been placed here, to discourage vanity, and since no whitewash covered the brocaded purple wallpaper, its pervasive hue gave an added sense of heaviness to the crowded chamber. All the rest of our lives would be together then, Ann Veronica. . But I've not promised to stand by him yet; nor will I, unless he turns out an honest lad,—mind that. He never appears to so little advantage as when speaking of him. Too much, perhaps.
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