But once he had steered the lady down the hall and along a passage to a window seat at the end, he abandoned the subject of society. It would be difficult to find another human being subjected to so many angles of attack as Spurlock. All the sombre visions she had been pressing back, fighting out of her thoughts, swarmed over the barrier and crushed her. Wood," added she in a hollow voice, and with a ghastly look, "gin may bring ruin; but as long as poverty, vice, and ill-usage exist, it will be drunk. She had gained respect all about town with news of her fine marriage, and her reputation as a beauty was expanding. She would always be waiting upon this boy, he mused. It is really cheap, you know. ” He said, his voice tinged with worry. The very facts that Miss Miniver never stated an argument clearly, that she was never embarrassed by a sense of self-contradiction, and had little more respect for consistency of statement than a washerwoman has for wisps of vapor, which made Ann Veronica critical and hostile at their first encounter in Morningside Park, became at last with constant association the secret of Miss Miniver’s growing influence.
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