CHAPTER XI. 256 Lucy chose her words carefully. I am an independent sort of person,” she continued, “and I am engaged in an attempt to earn my own living. She rose to the fire to stoke it. She read voraciously, and presently, because of her aunt’s censorship, she took to smuggling any books she thought might be prohibited instead of bringing them home openly, and she went to the theatre whenever she could produce an acceptable friend to accompany her. Wood could give him no further information respecting Sir Rowland Trenchard than what he had obtained from Kneebone; but begged him to defer the further consideration of the line of conduct he meant to pursue until the morrow, when he hoped to have a plan to lay before him, of which he would approve. It’s a tremendous blow, of course—but it doesn’t kill me. He was accompanied by a young man of about seven-and-twenty, who carried his easel, set it in its place, laid the canvass upon it, opened the paint box, took out the brushes and palette, and, in short, paid him the most assiduous attention. ‘I do not need for you to tell me this. There was no response. By degrees, his fears vanished, and hearing nothing, he grew calmer. It jars with all my ideas. 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. “I have not quarrelled with her.
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