“There’s morbid beauty,” said Ann Veronica. Later, she understood his reasons; and it had now become habit. His hair had begun to gray, his belly had just begun to round. I swore I would bring your husband to the gallows,—would plunge you in such want, such distress, that you should have no alternative but the last frightful resource of misery,—and I also swore, that if you had a son he should share the same fate as his father. Never had she seemed to him so much like Anna. She mounted the stairs of the theatrical agent’s office with very much less than her usual buoyancy, nor did she find much encouragement in the general appearance of the room into which she was shown. But her great-aunt was nodding, as if this was what she had expected. She wondered even at this late day how she had been able to hold her maddening curiosity in check. Instinctively she had fallen into the posture of the poster, her hands behind her, her head bent slightly forward, her chin uplifted, her eyes bright with the drollery of the song. ‘You said she was beautiful. " "You are the kindest man I have ever known," said Ruth, unashamed of her tears. The very facts that Miss Miniver never stated an argument clearly, that she was never embarrassed by a sense of self-contradiction, and had little more respect for consistency of statement than a washerwoman has for wisps of vapor, which made Ann Veronica critical and hostile at their first encounter in Morningside Park, became at last with constant association the secret of Miss Miniver’s growing influence.
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