She looked paler than ever; but her countenance, though bewildered, did not
exhibit the alarm which might naturally have been anticipated from the strange
and perplexing scene presented to her view. She stared
down at them from a high window, peering down at their
moonlit faces in the bed heavy with furs, the same bed
where she had given birth to Gianfrancesco’s dead son. 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. She leaned a little towards him. ’
‘Oh, yes I do,’ Martha said, getting up off the bed. There was a long
silence between them. The Becks as a
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family didn’t talk or ruminate over Mike’s or Lucy’s past
much. And her mother, looking unusually alert
and hectic, wore cream and brown also, made up in a more complicated manner.
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