But the people among whom she was now thrown through the social exertions of Miss Miniver and the Widgetts—for Teddy and Hetty came up from Morningside Park and took her to an eighteen-penny dinner in Soho and introduced her to some art students, who were also Socialists, and so opened the way to an evening of meandering talk in a studio—carried with them like an atmosphere this implication, not only that the world was in some stupid and even obvious way WRONG, with which indeed she was quite prepared to agree, but that it needed only a few pioneers to behave as such and be thoroughly and indiscriminately “advanced,” for the new order to achieve itself. That same adventurousness that had already buoyed her through crises that would have overwhelmed any normally feminine girl with shame and horror now became uppermost again. Many knew Diane’s disdain for the Beck family as well, “who would take in any stray that arrived mewling at their doorstep. She missed them already. Barleycorn had sent to the mat for the count of nine: unless the young fool's daddy had a bundle of coin. Shortly a man descended laboriously. All the rest of our lives would be together then, Ann Veronica. . " And thus their domesticity at McClintock's began—with the tubbing of a stray yellow dog. Among his books, Plutarch's Lives, and the Histories of Great Commanders, appeared to have been frequently consulted; but the dust had gathered thickly upon the Carpenter's Manual, and a Treatise on Trigonometry and Geometry. She entered the front hall, formerly magnificent, now faded and dusty, the old wood table waiting for guests who would never come. “Well, lodgings and things! And I paid my fees at the College. “If you really are going to wait, make yourself as comfortable as you can. Cheveney was another Paris friend, was he?” she asked.
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