‘I have an
excellent excuse to remain comfortably ensconced in my parlour here, able to
indulge in my favourite pastime. Tell me that you are not
sorry to see me again. "I beg your pardon," he cried; "but really—ha! ha!—you must excuse me!—that
is so uncommonly diverting—ha! ha! Do let me hear it again?—ha! ha! ha!"
"Upon my word," rejoined Wood, "you seem vastly entertained by my
misfortunes. "I'm going back for Ruth. I’ve had enough of it. “No reason. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with
some man?”
“What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad
as to go off alone?”
“After—after what had happened the night before?”
“Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face
as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the
very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and
there, sure enough, was yours. "
The lack of a family album for some reason put a little ache in her heart. Jonathan, however, was well
acquainted with the road. Mr.
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