His fears supplied him with unwonted vigour. We’re hard stuff!” Then she went on: “To think that is my father! Oh, my dear! He stood over me like a cliff; the thought of him nearly turned me aside from everything we have done. His ideas about girls and women were of a sentimental and modest quality; they were creatures, he thought, either too bad for a modern vocabulary, and then frequently most undesirably desirable, or too pure and good for life. “No, you weren’t bad in the slightest. In all her life no living thing had had to depend upon her, not even a dog or a cat. God gives us an equal chance; but we make ourselves. How the deuce did I ever manage to father such a brainless nincompoop? A nun, for God’s sake! A confounded Catholic nun. ” “I was late. I’ll have to make a visit out of town. And even she was forced to admit to herself that this last resource of hers was a slender reed on which to lean. “I’m still inside you. ” He took his place by her side, and they talked lightly of London, the shops and people. " She laughed; and it was pleasant laughter in his ears. "You must have travelled a good deal to know so much about men. ’ ‘You always were an old sobersides, even as a boy,’ retorted the major, who was close on thirty now, yet as ripe for excitement as he had been on receiving his first commission at sixteen.
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