Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London


"Wasn't it Voltaire who quarreled with a king over candle-ends?"
Graham queried, pleasuring in the sight of her graceful abandon.
Thirty-eight! It was impossible. She seemed almost a girl, petulant
and flushed over some school task. Then he remembered Mrs. Tully's
remark that Paula was the most mature child she had ever known.


It made him wonder. Was she the one, who, under the oaks at the
hitching rails, with two brief sentences had cut to the heart of an
impending situation? "So I apprehend," she had said. What had she
apprehended? Had she used the phrase glibly, without meaning? Yet she
it was who had thrilled and fluttered to him and with him when they
had sung the "Gypsy Trail." _That_ he knew. But again, had he not
seen her warm and glow to the playing of Donald Ware? But here
Graham's ego had its will of him, for he told himself that with Donald
Ware it was different. And he smiled to himself and at himself at the
thought.

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