He seemed to be labouring under some great excitement. Ann Veronica, after a last survey of the dinner appointments, followed him, rustling, came to his side by the high brass fender, and touched two or three ornaments on the mantel above the cheerful fireplace. He was a philosopher. ’ He regarded her thoughtfully. “There’s no end of things I’d like to talk over with you. But—Miss Pellissier!” “Well?” “Are you quite sure that you want us this evening? Wouldn’t you rather be alone? Just say the word, and we’ll clear out like a shot. " "Thank'ee, Sir," grinned Sheppard. Annabel had spoken calmly enough and steadily, but his brain refused at first to accept the full meaning of her words. She became more and more alive, not so much to a system of ideas as to a big diffused impulse toward change, to a great discontent with and criticism of life as it is lived, to a clamorous confusion of ideas for reconstruction—reconstruction of the methods of business, of economic development, of the rules of property, of the status of children, of the clothing and feeding and teaching of every one; she developed a quite exaggerated consciousness of a multitude of people going about the swarming spaces of London with their minds full, their talk and gestures full, their very clothing charged with the suggestion of the urgency of this pervasive project of alteration. For a time Ann Veronica went on her way gauging the quality of sordid streets. She was fine and tender.
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