Then Ramage appeared with effusion, and ushered her into his inner
apartment. “Very well,” he said. And
then this girl had to sweep into and out of his life! He recalled McClintock's
comment about Spurlock being the kind that fell soft. At any rate he made it very clear that night that there was an ineradicable
discord in life, a jarring something that must shatter all her dreams of a way of
living for women that would enable them to be free and spacious and friendly
with men, and that was the passionate predisposition of men to believe that the
love of women can be earned and won and controlled and compelled. Some Chinaman might take it into his head to shout:
"Death to the foreign devils!" And out of that wall yonder would boil battle and
murder and sudden death. And now she was discovering that even
Nature was something of a liar, with her mirages and her horizons. ‘Couldn’t reconcile it with my dooty to leave you here—’
A thought made Melusine stop dead, turning to him. Besides," she added, blushing yet more
deeply, "it isn't a proper one to talk upon. Not a bad man as men go, but he would sell whisky and
gin. She had
finally managed to start breaking him down. He was amused. "Do you think I'd take the trouble to
announce him? These are persons of consequence, I tell you. "
The poor widow hung her head, and pressed her child closer to her breast. So, adroitly and
patiently, he pulled Ruth apart; that is, he plucked forth a little secret here,
another there, until he had quite a substantial array.
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