She did not understand the note of hostility to men that ran through it all, the bitter vindictiveness that lit Miss Miniver’s cheeks and eyes, the sense of some at last insupportable wrong slowly accumulated. For it was not a good thing to like one man too much when one was going to marry another. It was a curious sight to see how this extraordinary woman, who, it has been said, was not less remarkable for the extreme delicacy of her features, and the faultless symmetry of her figure, than for her wonderful strength and agility, conducted herself in the present encounter; with what dexterity she parried every blow aimed against her by her adversary, whose head and face, already marked by various ruddy streams, showed how successfully her own hits had been made; —how she drew him hither and thither, now leading him on, now driving him suddenly back; harassing and exhausting him in every possible way, and making it apparent that she could at any moment put an end to the fight, and only delayed the finishing stroke to make his punishment the more severe. “What else was I to do?” For some seconds she stood watching him and both were thinking very quickly. Still, I am curious. “By God!” said Ann Veronica for the first time in her life. "Facts convince the most incredulous," answered Jonathan, drily. ‘You said?’ ‘Mrs Sindlesham, your great-aunt, miss. A shout was heard at a little distance, and, the next moment, a person rushed with breathless haste to the stair-head. The curtain before one mystery was torn aside, and she saw in reality what lay behind the impulse that had led her into the young man's room. . Stanley,’ I said. ‘I knew you would be furious. I dare say anything seemed better to her than the nun’s habit she had been obliged to use.
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