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His advice was mostly practical. She was a large, resilient girl, with
a foolish smile, a still more foolish expression of earnestness, and a throaty
contralto voice. Her aunt had summoned up an altogether too vivid picture of her father as the
masterful man, overbearing, emphatic, sentimental, noisy, aimless. “Allow me,” the doctor said, “to give you a word of advice, Miss Pellissier. A bad one in a
rough-and-tumble; all the water-front tricks. Annabel is my only sister, you know, almost my only relative. Still, thereafter she had avoided Morgan's; partly out of fear and partly because
of her father's mandate. He disappeared and she was finally convicted
for past child abuse, but because she was diagnosed as
schizophrenic they put her in a state mental ward instead
of jail. “Can you not understand? It is of no use
your taking my identity and all the burden of my iniquities upon your dear
shoulders if I am to be recognized the moment I show my face in London. Guns were impossible. He was a civil servant of some
standing, and after a previous conversation upon aesthetics of a sententious,
nebulous, and sympathetic character, he had sent her a small volume, which he
described as the fruits of his leisure and which was as a matter of fact rather
carefully finished verse. She’d prefer that I read classic literature, of
course, but she only reads paperback romance novels, so
she can’t exactly complain.
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