Things happened frequently over here
that wouldn't happen in the States once in a hundred years. You call it a lot of nicknames—“Babs” and
“Bibs” and “Viddles” and “Vee”; you whack at it playfully, and it whacks you
back. To this Jack replied, that he should be perfectly
contented, provided he might have a small allowance of gin. ’
‘Nonsense. The thing is, Miss Charvill
—’
‘He told you my name?’ cut in Melusine, surprised. ”
“I wish I could make you visible to yourself. I haven't much money; I
don't know how much it is going to cost me to reach Hartford; so I fixed over a
couple of my mother's dresses. "
"Humph!" ejaculated the carpenter. She had learned this
art in skirts, and knew well how not to be disadvantaged. "Miss Enschede, you're seven kinds of a brick!"
"A brick?"
He chuckled. She was still more stirred
by the idea of the equal citizenship of men and women, by the realization that a
big and growing organization of women were giving form and a generalized
expression to just that personal pride, that aspiration for personal freedom and
respect which had brought her to London; but when she heard Miss Miniver
discoursing on the next step in the suffrage campaign, or read of women
badgering Cabinet Ministers, padlocked to railings, or getting up in a public
meeting to pipe out a demand for votes and be carried out kicking and
screaming, her soul revolted. For a time her efforts to achieve a comprehensive concentration were
dispersed by the passage of the village street of Caddington, the passing of a
goggled car-load of motorists, and the struggles of a stable lad mounted on one
recalcitrant horse and leading another.
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