“I think—we all think that she is wonderful. It was very pretty and very dainty while it lasted, but we played it with our eyes open, and we perfectly understood the game—both of us. One with the appearance of a bald little gnome yawned agonizingly. How little he knew about Ruth—the background from which she had sprung! He knew that her father was a missioner, that her mother was dead, that she had been born on this island, and that, at the time of his collapse, she had been on the way to an aunt in the States. She attacked me with a carving-knife, and, when I had disarmed her, the jade bit off a couple of fingers from my left hand. It is no fault of your own that you are not at this moment standing there with your head blown off. ’ The girl held out her hands. They were bickering, she could tell by the way the mother threw her fat arms into the air and paced restlessly about the tiny clapboard house. The spinsters—who on the morrow would vanish out of the girl's life for ever—had already left their imprint upon her imagination. The five men students were a mixed company. She did not so much deal with Ann Veronica’s interpolations as dispose of them with quick and use-hardened repartee, and then she went on with a fine directness to sketch the case for her agitation, for that remarkable rebellion of the women that was then agitating the whole world of politics and discussion.
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