To die intestate was unforgiveably irresponsible. Constance Widgett’s abundant copper-red hair was bent down over some dimly remunerative work—stencilling in colors upon rough, white material—at a kitchen table she had dragged up-stairs for the purpose, while on her bed there was seated a slender lady of thirty or so in a dingy green dress, whom Constance had introduced with a wave of her hand as Miss Miniver. The picturesque scoundrel had the true gift; and Spurlock was filled with pity at the thought of such genius gone to pot. Behind them stalked Blueskin, enveloped in a rough great-coat, called—appropriately enough in this instance,—a wrap-rascal. “Why not?” He asked. ” “It’s the perpetual trouble,” he said, “of parent and child. He is delightful, is he not?’ ‘That will do, Lucilla. ’ ‘Ah, that was an affair altogether different,’ she explained and fluttered her long lashes at him. “There are a good many Whites in London. ” A sudden sense of the gravity of this thing came home to Anna. As she came close, he took a pace forward and seized her from behind, one strong arm clamping her tight against his chest, the free hand seizing her about the mouth, stifling the cry that gurgled in her throat. Not like my father. Monsieur Charvill, he is also my cousin. Never had her father explained. Then she would have quiet times, in which she would say to herself, “Now look here! Let me think it all out!” For the first time, it seemed to her, she faced the facts of a woman’s position in the world—the meagre realities of such freedom as it permitted her, the almost unavoidable obligation to some individual man under which she must labor for even a foothold in the world.
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