She approached Ruth with open arms; and something in the way the child came into that kindly embrace hurt the older woman to the point of tears. He had had five children at irregular intervals, of whom Ann Veronica was the youngest, so that as a parent he came to her perhaps a little practised and jaded and inattentive; and he called her his “little Vee,” and patted her unexpectedly and disconcertingly, and treated her promiscuously as of any age between eleven and eight-and-twenty. They are things faint and slight in themselves, as physical facts, but they are like the detonator of a bomb: they let loose the explosive. In the end, resolution triumphed, as it was sure to do, over the weaker emotions, and he laughed at his fears. But here was a girl—she must be a girl, since she was his daughter and pat-able—imitating the woman quite remarkably and cleverly. Having drunk as much as he thought prudent, and thanked his unknown friend for his attention, Jack again lay down on the straw, and indulged himself with another nap, intending to get up as soon as it was perfectly dark.
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