She was quite oblivious to the sensation she had created. Stanley, putting his hands on the table in the manner rather of a barrister than a solicitor, and regarding her balefully through his glasses with quite undisguised animosity, asked, “And may I presume to inquire, then, what you mean to do?—how do you propose to live?” “I shall live,” sobbed Ann Veronica. She fluttered her eyelashes, and adopted the soulful tone that served her well at times. I finally got my own set of house keys when I turned eleven. How little he knew about Ruth—the background from which she had sprung! He knew that her father was a missioner, that her mother was dead, that she had been born on this island, and that, at the time of his collapse, she had been on the way to an aunt in the States. Everyone will grumble to you confidentially—Miss Ellicot, she’s our swagger young lady, you know—up there, next to Miss White, she will tell you that it is so out of the world here, so far away from everyone one knows. But if you do not leave this room I must. They’ll know. ” 243 She felt a mixture of embarrassment, humiliation, and pride well up in her cheeks, flushing them. Then a third secretarial opening occurred and renewed her hopes again: a position as amanuensis—with which some of the lighter duties of a nurse were combined— to an infirm gentleman of means living at Twickenham, and engaged upon a great literary research to prove that the “Faery Queen” was really a treatise upon molecular chemistry written in a peculiar and picturesquely handled cipher. “To tell you the truth, I am a little dull. For hours after she had not been sensible to life, only to exquisite echoes. “Go it, miss!” cried one. "Not the sort of stories young ladies should read. “Should I leave? Sounds like she is running out of food.
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