All the world over a wedding procession arouses laughter and derision in the bystanders. "You can render no further service to your poor mother. And, thrusting a piece of iron into his mouth, he forced him out of the room. Slowly and ruefully she realized why marriage was so idealized among her generations of those before her. But at last this ordeal was over, and Ramage opened the door. What a God-forsaken fool he was! And dimly, out there somewhere in the South Seas—the beach! Already he sensed the fascination of the inevitable; and with this fascination came the idea of haste, to get there quickly and have done. There must be something, one feels, in ideas that achieve persistently a successful resurrection. He had found her in a communicative mood, and he used the accumulated skill of years in turning that to account. Ann Veronica felt suddenly an effect of tremendous pathos; she would have given anything to have been able to frame and make some appeal, some utterance that should bridge this bottomless chasm that had opened between her and her father, and she could find nothing whatever to say that was in the least sincere and appealing. Martin’s eyes seemed about to pop out of his head. When she came in after dinner that night, Ruth was no longer an interesting phenomenon, something figuratively to tear apart and investigate: she was talismanic. I have one shilling and sevenpence halfpenny left. All the best novels have been written by women, and yet see how men sneer at the lady novelist still! There’s only one way to get on for a woman, and that is to please men.
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