She shuddered. Both had dropped the rather elaborate politeness of the dining-room, and in their faces an impartial observer would have discovered little lines of obstinate wilfulness in common; a certain hardness—sharp, indeed, in the father and softly rounded in the daughter—but hardness nevertheless, that made every compromise a bargain and every charity a discount. I knew it was in vain to cry 'murder!' in the Mint, so I had recourse to stratagem. We'll get together this afternoon; and you can pretend that I am your father. To the poor carpenter it seemed an endless distance. If only this man had been her father! The world would have meant nothing; the island would have been wide enough. Miss Moffatt, the history and moral instruction mistress, was particularly explicit upon this score, and they all agreed in indicating contempt and pity for girls whose minds ran on such matters, and who betrayed it in their conversation or dress or bearing. "She in intensely impressionable and romantic, and probably she is giving the chap qualities he doesn't possess. If they had any idea the concerts he had seen, they would have known the quality of her playing. But of what use to wear it when there was no one of importance to see and admire? ‘For shame, Melusine,’ protested Lucy, as the butler bowed himself out of the room. ’ ‘Where then is your uniform?’ ‘I don’t wear it to balls. When mistress took and died—’ Joan broke off and sighed, moving away to the window.
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