For a few minutes he kept them at bay. 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. He was not there. She would look up, shake her head, and then go back to her reading or crewelwork. Her aunt had summoned up an altogether too vivid picture of her father as the masterful man, overbearing, emphatic, sentimental, noisy, aimless. Sheppard, passionately,—"he has my boundless gratitude, and devotion. Mrs. ‘Danged if I ever hear the like! A Frenchie is what you are, and there ain’t no granddaughter Charvill no more. I forget the particulars, but I know it was something very disagreeable. She could visualize the picture she had presented, particularly the battered papier-mâché kitbag at her feet.
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