”
“Do you think of these things—these matters—as belonging to our Higher
Nature or our Lower?”
“I don’t deal in Higher Things, I tell you,” said Ann Veronica, “or Lower, for
the matter of that. "
"You cannot help yourself, Sir Rowland," replied Jonathan, contemptuously. She was
marvellously pretty, but he was not quite sure—yet—that it was advisable for
him to sit with her in so public a place. "
"But how in the Lord's name was she brought up? There's a queer story back of
this somewhere. “For my own part I have come fully now into my inheritance. I loitered in the shop as you
chatted with the butcher’s girl. It seemed to her the last desperate attack upon the universe that would not
let her live as she desired to live, that penned her in and controlled her and
directed her and disapproved of her, the same invincible wrappering, the same
leaden tyranny of a universe that she had vowed to overcome after that
memorable conflict with her father at Morningside Park. Maybe later. ”
To which the only possible reply seemed to be, “I’m not coming home.
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