She was always initiating petty breaches of discipline. It was high afternoon, there was no great throng of footpassengers, and many an eye from omnibus and pavement rested gratefully on
her fresh, trim presence as she passed young and erect, with the light of
determination shining through the quiet self-possession of her face. He fancied, indeed, that he
beheld a figure spring upon the starling at the moment when the boats came in
contact; but, as he could perceive no one near him, he concluded he must have
been mistaken. The visitor was the hotel
manager, who respectfully announced that the doctor was ready for her. “I ought to have done anything!
“What’s a man for?
“Friendship!”
He doubled up his fist, and seemed to contemplate thrusting it through the
window. The Morning Post was hungry for governesses and nursery governesses,
but held out no other hopes; the Daily Telegraph that morning seemed eager only
for skirt hands. “I’m not
sure whether we don’t rather overdo all this higher education,” he said, with an
effect of conveying profound meanings. “I am sure she will be very happy indeed with Doctor Ralph. ’
Obediently, Gerald rose and walked to the other end of the parlour. Then she was turning, ignoring the muttered cursing and the rattling that
immediately ensued at the door. She would have just
to keep the fifteen pounds until she could make it twenty. I suppose my creed is, ‘I believe rather indistinctly in
God the Father Almighty, substratum of the evolutionary process, and, in a vein
of vague sentimentality that doesn’t give a datum for anything at all, in Jesus
Christ, His Son.
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