“I may seem unduly—
anxious. ‘All this
gadding about. You have no grasp upon the essential facts of life (I pray God
you never may), and in your rash ignorance you are prepared to dash into
positions that may end in lifelong regret. “I wonder what he takes me for?”
When presently she got down from the stile a certain note of internal conflict,
a touch of doubt, had gone from her warm-tinted face. "
"You'll dance upon nothing, presently," rejoined Jonathan, brutally. "I
will have no satisfaction but his life. “But why is it preposterous?” asked Ann Veronica, and fiddled with a pipe on
the mantel. "Are
you a poltroon, after all?"
"That's it! I ought to have died that night!"
"Or is there a taint of insanity in your family history? Alone and practically
penniless like yourself! You weren't even stirred by gratitude. Curiosity to see
what a sing-song girl was like took possession of Ruth's thoughts. ”
“But there is something more. It
was then for the first time she remembered that she had said nothing to her sister
of the man in the hospital. He had a wild impulse to shout. Babies and females
have got to keep hold of somebody or go under—anyhow, for the next few
generations.
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