Fortescue had not much ability to keep her sister, and a little while after her mother’s death Ann Veronica met Gwen suddenly on the staircase coming from her father’s study, shockingly dingy in dusty mourning and tearful and resentful, and after that Gwen receded from the Morningside Park world, and not even the begging letters and distressful communications that her father and aunt received, but only a vague intimation of dreadfulness, a leakage of incidental comment, flashes of paternal anger at “that blackguard,” came to Ann Veronica’s ears. He was almost frightening in silhouette, his hair uncontrollable under the best of circumstances, but that changed when you saw his face. “A thick-set, coarse-looking young man, Anna!” she exclaimed in a hoarse excited whisper. As usual, however, on the occasion of any great calamity, a crowd was scouring the streets, whose sole object was plunder.
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