‘Why do you think I told
you about the portrait? I’d not seen it, of course, but I’d seen Miss Mary just
before she got married, which is when it was painted. Faugh!”
She took up the last morsel of roll, and held it delicately between her long slim
fingers. “He was a
friend of your sister’s, was he not?”
“I never heard her mention his name,” she answered. If ever
the denouement came—if ever the Hand reached him—Ruth would then
understand why he had rebuffed all her tender advances. He had an air of having told her a deep, personal secret. Kneebone on her way to the door,
"how could you bring such creatures with you, especially on an occasion like
this, when we haven't met for a fortnight!"
"Couldn't help it, my life," returned the gentleman addressed, in the same tone;
"but you little know who those individuals are.
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