And Blueskin, who, for a moment, had looked round distrustfully, concluding it was a feint, now laughed louder than ever. I felt somehow I’d hurt you. “I am afraid,” he said gravely, “that your sister has been a little indiscreet. It is useless to talk. For you know that I have made up my mind to dig a little way into life single-handed. Constance Widgett’s abundant copper-red hair was bent down over some dimly remunerative work—stencilling in colors upon rough, white material—at a kitchen table she had dragged up-stairs for the purpose, while on her bed there was seated a slender lady of thirty or so in a dingy green dress, whom Constance had introduced with a wave of her hand as Miss Miniver. In truth, she had been quite glad to lose the argument about remaining while the bullet was dug out of Jack’s side. Miss Garvice assumed a quality of neutrality, professed herself almost won over by Ann Veronica’s example, and the Scotchman decided that if women had a distinctive sphere it was, at any rate, an enlarging sphere, and no one who believed in the doctrine of evolution could logically deny the vote to women “ultimately,” however much they might be disposed to doubt the advisability of its immediate concession. Satisfied with his scrutiny, he produced a pocket-flask, and taking off the silver cup with which it was mounted, filled it with the contents of the flask, and then seizing the thin arm of the sleeper, rudely shook it. Her impressions of this cardinal ceremony were rich and confused, complicated by a quite transitory passion that awakened no reciprocal fire for a fat curly headed cousin in black velveteen and a lace collar, who assisted as a page. And yet to Spurlock it was only the title of a story he would some day write. He stepped in with a heavy foreboding of calamity. " "One word before we begin, Blueskin," said Jack, authoritatively; "in case the family should be alarmed—mind, no violence.
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