” She departed from the couch and went upstairs to find John. 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. She fell into a deep delirium, whispering hoarsely to her dead mother, cursing God in Heaven, cursing her doctor, cursing herself as apparitions of devils and demons pulled at her with yellow ochre hands. And next morning she attired herself with especial care and neatness, found his address in the Directory at a post-office, and went to him. Her father’s ideas of expostulation were a little harsh and forcible, and over the claret-colored table-cloth and under the gas chandelier, with his hat and umbrella between them like the mace in Parliament, he and his daughter contrived to have a violent quarrel. We have only those phantoms called memories, which are the husks of dreams. He returned her impressive greeting almost mechanically. “Read this, John. How she needed him! Next moment, she had wrenched open the door, and was confronting her guard.
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