The costume of this
personage was somewhat singular, and might have passed for a masquerading
habit, had not the imperturbable gravity of his demeanour forbidden any such
supposition. For all the
enervating heat, he applied himself vigorously to his tasks. ’
Gerald frowned in an effort of memory, and then laughed as he recalled one of
the lies she had invented for his benefit. All the best novels have been
written by women, and yet see how men sneer at the lady novelist still! There’s
only one way to get on for a woman, and that is to please men. "
"Be pacified, sweet soul," said Wood, looking meaningly at Thames; "you shall
go, and I will accompany you. Where can we sit down and talk?”
He led her across the room towards a window recess, in which a tall, fair young
man was seated with an evening paper in his hand. "
Ruth laughed. Somebody may
be on the watch—perhaps, that old ginger-hackled Jew. There was
a gulf of eight years between her and the youngest of her brace of sisters—an
impassable gulf inhabited chaotically by two noisy brothers. "Close the doors below! Loose the dogs! Curses!
they don't hear me! I'll ring the alarm-bell.
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