“Come to my rooms
and have a drink. Her knees shook, her breath came fast, she almost felt the lurid effect of those
tiny patches of rouge upon her pallor-stricken cheeks. . But tell her
this, too. "
Quilt knelt down, as if he meant to comply; but, watching his opportunity, he
made a sudden grasp at Sheppard's leg, with the intention of overthrowing him. “Etherialized monkey,” she said. Her birthday was
four months away, and that, at its extremist point, might give her another five
pounds. A strange betrothal!—the primal idea of which was escape! The girl, intent upon
abrogating for ever all legal rights of the father in the daughter, of rendering
innocuous the thing she had now named the Terror: the boy, seeking selfcrucifixion in expiation of his transgression, changing a peccadillo into
damnation!
It was easy for Ruth to surrender to the idea, for she believed she was loved; and
in gratitude it was already her determination to give this boy her heart's blood,
drop by drop, if he wanted it. "Once in this chair, yer hon'r,
and I'll warrant he'll not get out so aisily as Jack Sheppard did from the New
Pris'n.
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