So long as she could remember, her father had never permitted her to sit at the table unless she came fully dressed. He addressed her by that title, and something in the tone disturbed her. . 1. She had a gold watch, a very good gold watch that had been her mother’s, a pearl necklace that was also pretty good, some unpretending rings, some silver bangles and a few other such inferior trinkets, three pounds thirteen shillings unspent of her dress and book allowance and a few good salable books. But they cut it all off. “He’s got good taste, you know. " "Oh, dear! how I should like to see him. . 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. Young, not much older than she was: she was twenty and he was possibly twenty-four. “What have I done, Miss Pellissier?” he pleaded. Wood had the advantage of her husband in point of years, being on the sunny side of forty,—a period pronounced by competent judges to be the most fascinating, and, at the same time, most critical epoch of woman's existence,—whereas, he was on the shady side of fifty,—a term of life not generally conceived to have any special recommendation in female eyes.
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