The dress came to her only too manifestly unwashed from its former wearer; even the under-linen they gave her seemed unclean. It was time to disappear, no more Becks, no more Spaghetti Nights, no more afternoon kisses in the park with John Diedermayer. For nothing will ever convince me that it is not the man’s share in life to shield, to protect, to lead and toil and watch and battle with the world at large. But, alas! she was beautiful—and beauty is a crime not to be forgiven by a jealous woman. In the midst of the holy place, which he had formerly profaned, lay the body of his unfortunate mother, and he could not help looking upon her untimely end as the retributive vengeance of Heaven for the crime he had committed. “That’s all very well when one isn’t the material experimented upon,” Ann Veronica had remarked. In the grate were some charred fragments of a marriage certificate. "Oh! they are—are they?" muttered Jack, triumphantly; "that'll do. 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. It was a great weight from her shoulders to confide in another human being, and she suspected he did truly believe her. She dared not look directly at him, her head obscured by a gray hoodie, she had the slumped appearance of an androgynous adolescent. He forgot for the moment his own self-pity, the egotism of his own passionate love. ‘This we will leave.
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