. They
moved fast. Jonathan's wicked threat is fulfilled at last. She was to fall back amongst the ruck, a young
woman of talent, content perhaps to earn a scanty living by painting Christmas
cards, or teaching at a kindergarten. "
"Shall we do so?" whispered Winifred to her father. The perspiration stood out upon his forehead. One glance through the window at that picturesque
head had been sufficient. It is a cheering reflection, that in the present prison, with its clean, wellwhitewashed, and well-ventilated wards, its airy courts, its infirmary, its
improved regulations, and its humane and intelligent officers, many of the
miseries of the old jail are removed. She could not be more than twenty; and though want and other
suffering had done the work of time, had wasted her frame, and robbed her
cheek of its bloom and roundness, they had not extinguished the lustre of her
eyes, nor thinned her raven hair. He was no match for
Brendon. There, in a little tea and sweetstuff shop, she bought and consumed slowly and absent-mindedly the
insufficient nourishment that is natural to her sex on such occasions. He refused
his food,—and even when better provisions were offered him, rejected them. She
had been sitting on the bench for two and a half hours,
which was uneventful except for the homeless men who
begged for change. "Ali Baba, in a blue-serge coat!… God-forsaken fool!"
CHAPTER XIII
One day Ruth caught the patient's eyes following her about; but there was no
question in the gaze, no interest; so she pretended not to notice. Abruptly she got out of bed, smoothed her sheet
and straightened her pillow and lay down, and fell almost instantly asleep.
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