“Turned out to be an impostor, too. The beautiful gowns and the flashing bare shoulders and arms of the women had disturbed and distressed her. But over against the world Miss Miniver assembled a small but energetic minority, the Children of Light—people she described as “being in the van,” or “altogether in the van,” about whom Ann Veronica’s mind was disposed to be more sceptical. She produced a handkerchief, and with one sweep of this and a simultaneous gulp had abolished her fit of weeping. Young noblemen ought to be indulged in their frolics. She liked the animated eagerness of his manner. Yes!" she screamed, "these are his father's features! It is—it is my son!" "Mother!" cried Thames; "are you, indeed, my mother?" "I am, indeed—my own sweet boy!" she sobbed, pressing him tenderly to her breast. “But if you knew anything of that—” “I did. His invalid wife and her money had been only the thin thread that held his life together; beaded on that permanent relation had been an inter-weaving series of other feminine experiences, disturbing, absorbing, interesting, memorable affairs. Unfortunately, I have little detail of the circumstances which surrounded the birth of the girl, and her subsequent removal to France. What a pity! For all her ignorance of material things—the human inventions which served the physical comforts of man—how much she knew about man himself! She had seen him bereft of all those spiritual props which permit man to walk on two feet instead of four—broken, without resilience. Then enter Mr. ” And Ann Veronica at once went back with the hold-all, trying not to hurry indecently but to keep up her dignified air of being a wronged person doing the right thing at a smart trot, to pack.
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