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I’ve told them all that was necessary, but I—
wanted to ask your pardon—for having made myself a nuisance to you, and for
breaking into your rooms—and to thank you—the doctor says you bound up my
wound—or I should have bled to death. Rank ingratitude, I
call it. She was practically an outcast, she had not even the ghost of a
plan as to her future, and she had something less than five pounds in her pocket. "Do you hear me?" cried the lady, with increasing vehemence. I don't know what you have done; I don't
want to know now. “It is so difficult,” she murmured, “so impossible to explain. He groped her buttocks. 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. With such
qualifications as she possessed, two chief channels of employment lay open, and
neither attracted her, neither seemed really to offer a conclusive escape from that
subjection to mankind against which, in the person of her father, she was
rebelling. So, here he was, on the last lap of
middle age, in China, having missed all the thrills in life except one—the war
against Death. "That's scarcely a fair question, Mr. Did he
track her? She was unaware if he did. He
felt that he might soon be separated—perhaps, for ever—from the fond little
creature he held in his arms, whom he had always regarded with the warmest
fraternal affection, and the thought of how much she would suffer from the
separation so sensibly affected him, that he could not help joining in her grief. In truth, she had been quite glad to lose the argument about remaining while
the bullet was dug out of Jack’s side.
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