The houses were older, the
shops gloomier, and the thoroughfare narrower, it is true; but the bustle, the
crowd, the street-like air was the same. CHAPTER XXI
McClintock's island was twelve miles long and eight miles wide, with the shape
of an oyster. I have been thinking these things over
lately, and it seems to me that marriage for a girl is just the supremest thing in
life. But he would make it a point not to speak again to the girl. There he sat, cheerfully friendly in his sex’s freedom—the
man she loved, the one man she cared should unlock the way to the wide world
for her imprisoned feminine possibilities, and he seemed regardless that she
stifled under his eyes; he made a jest of all this passionate insurgence of the
souls of women against the fate of their conditions. I asked
him to take me away, and hide me. ’
It took several frustrating moments, working at the protrusions of the carving
down the side of the bookshelves, tugging at leaves, pushing at flowers. There was still the pity of understanding in Ruth's eyes. "Whatever you like, Hoddy," she agreed, wiping the sweat from her forehead. Pews had been brought in
and set in two rows before the huge table, covered in white cloth, that formed the
altar at the far end. The devil is on top, not below. I’m not sure if Janine cared. Everything was very neat; it had evidently been straightened up and
kept for her. He looked around, and as he heard that deafening shout,—
as he felt the influence of those thousand eyes fixed upon him,—as he listened to
the cheers, all his misgivings—if he had any—vanished, and he felt more as if he
were marching to a triumph, than proceeding to a shameful death. .
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