‘Least of all, one who takes advantage of another’s misfortune. Jack submitted to this scrutiny with a very bad grace, and vehemently protested his innocence. Before I met you I never met any one whom I felt I could love, but you have discovered depths in my own nature I had scarcely suspected. “There,” he said, “you don’t treat me fairly, Miss Stanley. “To be frank with you, Lady Lescelles, when your brother asked me the other day to be his wife I was under a false impression as regards his relations—with some other person. “My hand! This isn’t the place. There were doorways to peer into, dim cluttered holes with shadowy forms moving about, potters and rug-weavers. Give me but leave to try. 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. "You see?" Ruth said.
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