" The Wastrel laughed. However, confession of a fault makes half amends for it. “They mould one insensibly. ” “But if we were?” said Ann Veronica. ’ The core of hurt rose up, tearing at her insides. She was never able to trace the changes her attitude had undergone, from the time when she believed herself to be the pampered Queen of Fortune, the crown of a good man’s love (and secretly, but nobly, worshipping some one else), to the time when she realized she was in fact just a mannequin for her lover’s imagination, and that he cared no more for the realities of her being, for the things she felt and desired, for the passions and dreams that might move her, than a child cares for the sawdust in its doll. ’ ‘I know,’ he said, smiling. His anger gave way to grim humour and he thrust towards them, leaning heavily on his cane. From this singular collection Trenchard turned to regard its possessor, who was standing at a little distance from him, still engaged in earnest discourse with his attendant, and, as he contemplated his ruthless countenance, on which duplicity and malignity had set their strongest seals, he could not help calling to mind all he had heard of Jonathan's perfidiousness to his employers, and deeply regretting that he had placed himself in the power of so unscrupulous a miscreant. "I was coming to give you intelligence of a comical trick played by this rascal, when I find him here—the last place, I own, where I should have expected to find him. Manning; secondly, by some measure or other, she meant to go on with her studies, not at the Tredgold Schools but at the Imperial College; and, thirdly, she was, as an immediate and decisive act, a symbol of just exactly where she stood, a declaration of free and adult initiative, going that night to the Fadden Ball. Their conversation degenerated again and again into a strain of self-congratulation that would have irked an eavesdropper. Gerald watched her perambulations in silence, his heart wrung. Sheppard trembled violently; and though she understood his meaning too well, she answered,—"I can't guess.
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