Her father’s peculiar
stiffness of soul presented itself now as something altogether left out of the
calculations upon which her plans were based, and, in particular, she had not
anticipated the difficulty she would find in borrowing the forty pounds she
needed for Ramage. While the strife was raging, Edgeworth Bess walked up to Rachel, and
advised her, if she valued her life, not to scream or stir from the spot; a caution
which the housekeeper, whose curiosity far outweighed her fears, received in
very good part. \"Carry your books for you?\" He asked. She wanted to think of him as her
beloved person, to be near him and watch him, to have him going about, doing
this and that, saying this and that, unconscious of her, while she too remained
unconscious of herself. ‘Parbleu, the house, is it broken in the least? I do
not think so. Ann Veronica brought her luggage in a cab from the hotel; she tipped the hotel
porter sixpence and overpaid the cabman eighteenpence, unpacked some of her
books and possessions, and so made the room a little homelike, and then sat
down in a by no means uncomfortable arm-chair before the fire. “It is a night of endings,” she murmured to herself. Any man
might have endeavoured to protect himself in this fashion, a man with no one to
care, with an unnameable terror at the thought (as if it mattered!) of being buried
in alien earth, far from the familiar places he loved.
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