So absorbed was she by her
passionate supplications that she was insensible to anything passing around her,
until she felt a touch upon her shoulder, and heard a well-known voice breathe in
her ear—"Mother!"
She started at the sound as if an apparition had called her, screamed, and fell into
her son's outstretched arms. “Fancy stabbing a man for jealousy!” she thought. Wood had the
advantage of her husband in point of years, being on the sunny side of forty,—a
period pronounced by competent judges to be the most fascinating, and, at the
same time, most critical epoch of woman's existence,—whereas, he was on the
shady side of fifty,—a term of life not generally conceived to have any special
recommendation in female eyes. You break into a gentleman’s residence
—’
‘I did not break in. Taking up a link, which was blazing beside him, he walked across the room; and
touching a spring in the wall, a secret door flew open. She was struck by a change in his appearance. She alone of them all knew that
he was on the first leg of the terrible journey to the beach. The prospect of the
gallows would never deter me from taking to the road, if I were so inclined. ”
He took his place by her side, and they talked lightly of London, the shops and
people. Epithalamy might do. "You see?" Ruth said. ”
“Pretty name. “Come on.
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