Duke Jones

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III THE GODS DISPOSE In the interview with her mother, next on the list of the day's doings, Violet failed. It is barely worth while stating that she failed to such as already know Lady Ashwin, but circumstances, as well as character, were against her. The gods, one might say, were against Violet: for dealing with Lady Ashwin brought one near to the immortals unconsciously,?which is not an exclusively flattering comparison for such as can imagine the task of meeting an Olympian in argument. Yet Violet was in fault as well; for one undoubted reason of her failure was that she went too fast. She did her best not to hurry her mother, for she knew the danger; she interrupted her own careful array of facts constantly, to remark on passing and indifferent things, and answer inconsequent and insignificant diversi