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. “Your mother was a Gypsy. I require nothing, you see, till my share of the contract is fulfilled. All sorts of battered tramps, junks and riff-raff of the seas trailed in and out. "You're inquisitive, young gentleman," replied Jackson, coldly. She wore a wonderful dress of turquoise blue, made by a great dressmaker for a function which she knew very well now that she would never attend. It is picturesquely situated beneath a tree on the high road, not far from the little hostel before mentioned, and at no great distance from the church. And then scratched it out and wrote instead, “Gérard”. This formality irked her: she wanted to play a little, romp. " The doctor caught the irony, and he warmed a little. The little pucker in her brows became more perceptible.
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