He had changed her life dramatically, and she had missed him dreadfully. He had had five children at irregular intervals, of whom Ann Veronica was the youngest, so that as a parent he came to her perhaps a little practised and jaded and inattentive; and he called her his “little Vee,” and patted her unexpectedly and disconcertingly, and treated her promiscuously as of any age between eleven and eight-and-twenty. Wherein she differed but little from her young sisters. ’ ‘Even if they militiamen weren’t there, miss,’ cautioned her cavalier, ‘you couldn’t go marching into the house open like. You are queerly educated; and it strikes me that your father had some definite purpose in thus educating you. "He does," replied Kneebone, "and, what is more surprising, it seems to increase. He only stays here for you, hoping in vain. It consisted of a close jerkin of brown frieze, ornamented with a triple row of brass buttons; loose Dutch slops, made very wide in the seat and very tight at the knees; red stockings with black clocks, and a fur cap. She doesn’t like you because she says the Beck’s are not ‘our kind of people’ which is her code for them not being rich enough. ’ ‘Alas. The spirit I drink may be poison,—it may kill me,—perhaps it is killing me:—but so would hunger, cold, misery,—so would my own thoughts.
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