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Still she kept an ideal: a free, proud lady absolved fro beyond petty considerations She would see

such ladies in pictures: Alexandra, Princess of Wales, was one

of her models This lady was proud and royal, and stepped

indifferently over all sirl did up her hair high under a little

slanting hat, her skirts were fashionably bunched up, she wore

an elegant, skin-fitting coat

Her father was delighted Anna was very proud in her bearing,

too naturally indifferent to smaller bonds to satisfy Ilkeston,

which would have liked to put her down But Brangas having

no such thing If she chose to be royal, royal she should be He

stood like a rock between her and the world

After the fashion of his farew stout and handso and sensitive, his

manner was deliberate, but hearty, war

his own life without attention frohboursfor him He did not

consider them, but was open-handed towards theness He liked people, so long as they

reent on in her oay, following her own

devices She had her husband, her two sons and Anna These

staked out and marked her horizon The other people were

outsiders Inside her oorld, her life passed along like a

dream for her, it lapsed, and she lived within its lapse, active

and always pleased, intent She scarcely noticed the outer