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She greeted him as he scanned her from head to toe,
absorbing the lines of her figure as he was doing
systematically with every other female in the parking lot. Then she went in and up-stairs, hesitated on the landing,
and finally, a little breathless and with an air of great dignity, opened the door
and walked into Ann Veronica’s room. He had barely settled at his desk in his library, when he
was disturbed by two morning callers. She produced
from the depths of her pride the ugly investigatory note of the modern district
visitor. You creep
around in a nun’s habit, peering into a private ballroom. ‘You see, it is that my papa, he is without sympathy,’ said the lady sadly. “I shall have to give up biology, anyhow. A new thought checked her steps and she froze. “We don’t let to ladies,” they
said. Who could say that the girl's father had not once been
a fashionable clergyman in the States and that drink had got him and forced him
down, step by step, until—to use the child's odd expression—he had come upon
the beach? She was cynical, this spinster. It’s all very handsome starting out on your own, but it’s
too damned hard. Even if you didn’t know it.
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