He was also aware that all his arguments would
shatter themselves against her resolutions. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with
some man?”
“What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad
as to go off alone?”
“After—after what had happened the night before?”
“Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face
as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the
very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and
there, sure enough, was yours. ’
At this, the fellow Valade burst into unwise speech. ‘But for my dowry, what else? One cannot
expect that an Englishman will marry any jeune demoiselle without a dowry. At last, a little way to the northward of Euston Road, the moral cloud
seemed to lift, the moral atmosphere to change; clean blinds appeared in the
windows, clean doorsteps before the doors, a different appeal in the neatly
placed cards bearing the word
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in the clear bright windows. We both understood that. Wood glanced at the hardy offender, and not liking the expression of his
countenance, thought it advisable to postpone the execution of his threats to a
more favourable opportunity. He thought it best to let the matter drop.
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