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Then, too, she observed the compression of his lips, and the occasional dilation of his nostrils. Each observation carried conviction, and the weight upon her heart grew almost insupportable. Finally he laid the letter down and went on with his meal. But he did not even glance at the wrappered newspaper. In self-defense Nan was forced to break the silence.
They seemed the most wrapped things in all Ann Veronica's wrappered world. The Widgett mental furniture was perhaps worn and shabby, but there it was before you, undisguised, fading visibly in an almost pitiless sunlight.
You have been wrappered and sheltered all your life. And yet you understand me better than any of the people I meet. All my life I have fought with myself. I might have been a gentleman and I'm only a wolf. My appetites and passions, stronger than myself dragged me down. It was Kismet, the destiny ordained for me from my birth."
That night Penrod awoke from a sweet, conscienceless slumber or, rather, he was awakened. A wrappered form lurked over him in the gloom. "Uff ow " he muttered, and turned his face from the dim light that shone through the doorway. He sighed and sought the depths of sleep again. "Penrod," his mother said softly, and, while he resisted feebly, she turned him over to face her.
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