‘You see,’ he pursued blandly, ‘I lead a life of the most intolerable boredom. She was a clever girl, the best of her year in the High School, and she made a valiant fight for Somerville or Newnham but her father had met and argued with a Somerville girl at a friend’s dinner-table and he thought that sort of thing unsexed a woman. She rose briskly, turned on the light, and opened Les Misérables to the episode of the dark forest: where Jean Valjean reaches out and takes Cosette's frightful pail from her chapped little hands. “You asked me in to tea,” he protested. Her father was an astute businessman and a hard worker, but also handsome in the face which had aided partly his ascension to the Guild. From a scout stationed at the northern entrance, whom she addressed in the jargon of the place, with which long usage had formerly rendered her familiar, she ascertained that Blueskin, accompanied by a youth, whom she knew by the description must be her son, had arrived there about three hours before, and had proceeded to the Cross Shovels. "You are giving that chap the boot rather suddenly?" "Had to. There were electric and ice plants, and a great store in which one could buy anything from jewsharps to gas-engines. Rain changed to hail, then 154 sleet, then snow. But he didn’t marry her. I’ve tried to use my authority. Only her ungloved fingers, and the arms in their long tight sleeves as she held the heavy gun aloft, bore any sign of stiffness.
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