“Your success here is absolutely meteoric. ” Anna smiled very faintly. She could hardly remember his face except for his brown hair, thick lips, and narrow dark eyes. He just seemed to have no interest, consumed with the hunt or his newfound friend, Sebastianus, who supposedly would enable him to expand his political ties to Rome. A young man was playing the banjo. She was still more stirred by the idea of the equal citizenship of men and women, by the realization that a big and growing organization of women were giving form and a generalized expression to just that personal pride, that aspiration for personal freedom and respect which had brought her to London; but when she heard Miss Miniver discoursing on the next step in the suffrage campaign, or read of women badgering Cabinet Ministers, padlocked to railings, or getting up in a public meeting to pipe out a demand for votes and be carried out kicking and screaming, her soul revolted. Even were she to get an opportunity to scream, it would be some time before such a call, unprecedented though it might be, brought the nuns so much out of their absorption that they interrupted their prayer to investigate. “Heavens!” she exclaimed. Who could say that the girl's father had not once been a fashionable clergyman in the States and that drink had got him and forced him down, step by step, until—to use the child's odd expression—he had come upon the beach? She was cynical, this spinster. It was said, that he received an affront from James, in the shape of a public reprimand, which his pride could not forgive. In the bad light he looked at once military and sentimental and studious, like one of Ouida’s guardsmen revised by Mr. Her unnatural calm was giving way.
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