Something has changed her tremendously. Pews had been brought in and set in two rows before the huge table, covered in white cloth, that formed the altar at the far end. Wrenching his hands from her shoulders, she thrust them away and leapt up from the chair. ‘Exactement. ” “That is all very well,” said Ann Veronica, unheeded. The infant was rescued from a watery-grave by an honest mechanic, who has since brought him up as his own son. Was it that the struggle of things to survive produced as a sort of necessary byproduct these intense preferences and appreciations, or was it that some mystical outer thing, some great force, drove life beautyward, even in spite of expediency, regardless of survival value and all the manifest discretions of life? She went to Capes with that riddle and put it to him very carefully and clearly, and he talked well—he always talked at some length when she took a difficulty to him—and sent her to a various literature upon the markings of butterflies, the incomprehensible elaboration and splendor of birds of Paradise and hummingbirds’ plumes, the patterning of tigers, and a leopard’s spots. Well, whenever you say, I promise to do away with the mystery. “And now,” said Ann Veronica surveying her apartment with an unprecedented sense of proprietorship, “what is the next step?” She spent the evening in writing—it was a little difficult—to her father and— which was easier—to the Widgetts. “I wonder if many people HAVE thought things out? “Are we all just seizing hold of phrases and obeying moods? “It wasn’t so with old-fashioned people, they knew right from wrong; they had a clear-cut, religious faith that seemed to explain everything and give a rule for everything. ” “If you dare—I dare,” said Ann Veronica.
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