The haste to send her upon her way now had but one interpretation—the
recognition of his own immediate danger, the fear that if this tender association
continued, he would end in offering her a calamity quite as impossible as that
which had happened—the love of a man who was in all probability older than
her father! The hurt was no less intensive because it was so ridiculous. "
"All right. "
The feminine vanities in Ruth were quiescent; nothing had ever occurred in her
life to tingle them into action. Just how particular are you?
Will he have to bring recommendations?"
"He will not. Mr. It was not in evidence here, not a sign of it. Then Alderman Dunstable, who had hitherto been
silent, broke out into speech and went off at a tangent, and gave his personal
impressions of quite a number of his fellow-councillors. She did not realize that she was offering criticisms. "Leave the room instantly, sirrah!" rejoined the lady, bouncing up, and giving
him a slap on the cheek that made his eyes flash fire. Why had Ruth married him? A penniless outcast, for she must
have known he was that. He guided himself between her
legs. Still, there certainly was something in the idea of a treaty. “Why won’t you sleep in my bed tonight, Lucia, where
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it’s warm?” He asked her one night, teasing but
mournful, as she stood in her bedroom doorway in a long
white gown.
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