Her father’s ideas of expostulation were a little harsh and forcible, and over the claret-colored table-cloth and under the gas chandelier, with his hat and umbrella between them like the mace in Parliament, he and his daughter contrived to have a violent quarrel. Both had dropped the rather elaborate politeness of the dining-room, and in their faces an impartial observer would have discovered little lines of obstinate wilfulness in common; a certain hardness—sharp, indeed, in the father and softly rounded in the daughter—but hardness nevertheless, that made every compromise a bargain and every charity a discount. He removed his cigarette from his lips and waved it gently in the air. “He says you are frigid, Madame. ’ ‘True enough,’ nodded Martha sadly. I'll take two apprentices, and depict their career. What would happen to her? Would her soul be shaken, twisted, hypnotized?—as it had been those other times? Music—that took out of her the sense of reality, whirled her into the clouds, that gave to her will the directless energy of a chip of wood on stormy waters. She ran 60 past it with melancholic dread towards the slope that led to the ocean. Your career at the bar had given you a command of language, also a self-control not vouchsafed to us ordinary mortals. ‘Good God! Everett Charvill, as I live. She threw out a hand to stop herself from cannoning into them and, losing balance, tripped over her own petticoats and fell to the carpeted floor, her hat falling off as she did so.
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