For all that she
was of exceptional intellectual enterprise, she had never yet considered these
things with unaverted eyes. ”
243
She felt a mixture of embarrassment, humiliation, and
pride well up in her cheeks, flushing them. “And what on earth,” he said, “do you think
the world is made of? Why do you think I have been doing things for you? The
abstract pleasure of goodness? Are you one of the members of that great white
sisterhood that takes and does not give? The good accepting woman! Do you
really suppose a girl is entitled to live at free quarters on any man she meets
without giving any return?”
“I thought,” said Ann Veronica, “you were my friend. ’
‘They wear a uniform, do they not? They march and fight with swords and
shoot with guns, no?’
‘Well, yes,
miss. There was a long
silence between them. "Lend a hand with the ruffles, Blueskin!" he shouted, as that personage, who had
just recovered from the stunning effects of the blow, contrived to pick himself
up. As for the doctor, he found a pleasure in this service that would have puzzled
him had he paused to analyse it.
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