To take Spring and Love out of her life, as if there were
no human instincts to tell Ruth what was being denied her! And what must have
been the man's thought as he came upon Ruth wearing a gown of her mother's?
—a fair picture of the mother in the primrose days? Not a flicker of an eyelash;
steel and granite outwardly. “You, anyhow, don’t deserve
it,” he said. She had not even endorsed it. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with
some man?”
“What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad
as to go off alone?”
“After—after what had happened the night before?”
“Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face
as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the
very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and
there, sure enough, was yours. He wriggled underneath her heaving body, pinned like
an insect. ” She could have handled ten times the
weight, and hoisted him on her back and carried him too. A young lad—Roding took him for a footman, or a groom by the neat black
garb—was halted some paces away from Valade, his hat in his hand as he made
pretence of fanning himself. ”
“Don’t say that,” Sydney begged. “Hello!” said Ann Veronica, with arms akimbo and a careless, breathless
manner. It won't do to knock at the door, and Jonathan
Wild's house is not quite so easy of entrance as Mr. She was obliged to concede
that his features were pleasing, his strength and vitality attractive; and there was
no denying how well this uniform of a militia suited his figure, which was lean
and powerful both. ’
‘Lucky indeed,’ answered Gerald, glancing at the pair again.
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