I shall take to him as nat'ral as if he were my own flesh
and blood afore long. "
"I'm satisfied with your assurance," replied the carpenter, drily. On this second excursion, forewarned, she would use no light and keep as
quiet as a mouse, she vowed, and thus refrain from attracting the attention of the
militia at the gates. He was the beachcomber, or the old sailor with the black
pearl (Ruth's tales), or the wastrel musician McClintock had described to him. "I have never been out of this horrible dungeon since we last met," he said;
"though how long ago that is, I scarcely know. ”
She kissed him passionately, and ran lightly upstairs. 26
His duties were to make certain that she was eating right
and not exposing herself to foul odors and cold drafts. It dealt from floor to ceiling and
end to end with the Theory of the Forms of Life; the very duster by the
blackboard was there to do its share in that work, the very washers in the taps;
the room was more simply concentrated in aim even than a church. “Hello, Gwen!” said Ann Veronica, trying to put every one at their ease. She had a horrible glimpse of the once
nice little old lady being also borne stationward, still faintly battling and very
muddy—one lock of grayish hair straggling over her neck, her face scared,
white, but triumphant. “I loathe afternoon
concerts, and——”
She was really like her sister he thought, impressed for a moment by the soft
brilliancy of her smile. And immeasurable was the calm evolved from this knowledge. Eh bien, why did he
not repeat it? What was she to say?
‘Prudence,’ she began hesitantly, pronouncing the name in the French way,
‘has said that she will help me to—to marry an Englishman. He was interesting
and inconclusive, and the original papers to which he referred her discursive
were at best only suggestive. Her little bedsitting-room was like a lair, and she went out from it into this vast, dun world,
with its smoke-gray houses, its glaring streets of shops, its dark streets of homes,
its orange-lit windows, under skies of dull copper or muddy gray or black, much
as an animal goes out to seek food.
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