A woman
indeed this to love and be loved, beautiful, graceful, gay. ’
Miss Froxfield regarded him in some interest. The proposal is
so far from being exorbitant, that it should be trebled if I had not a fellow-feeling
in the cause. Will you read to me? I am tired; and the sound of
your voice makes me drowsy. ‘Don’t be silly. I was Annabel
the rake, ‘Alcide’ of the music halls. "I shall want
nothing more. We are alone, Sir Rowland," he added, snuffing the candles, glancing
cautiously around, and lowering his tone, "and what you confide to me shall
never transpire,—at least to your disadvantage. CHAPTER XXVI. I
——”
He stopped short. The atmosphere at dinner
was not propitious. ‘Whereas my need was very great indeed. In fine, to marry
Ruth (if she would consent) as a punishment for what he had done! To whip his
soul so long as he lived, but to let his body go free! To provide for her, to work
and dream for her, to be tender and thoughtful and loyal, to shelter and guard
her, to become accountable to God for her future. Everybody, he felt, must be listening behind their
papers.
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