‘Nevertheless, you will marry me,’ he snarled. The moment he was out in the hall, Ruth sat up
hugging and rocking her body in delight. ‘Yes, only that this consolation he had
found before he married my mother. ’
‘Not French?’ echoed Hilary. “Do I understand you then to refuse my offer?” he asked Anna. ’
‘Nothing of the sort,’ Gerald said calmly, sipping at his burgundy. . ’
The lashes fluttered demurely. "Comfort yourself, my charmer," said Mr. "Your audacity passes belief," cried the latter, as soon as his surprise would
allow him utterance. That boy—blind as a bat! Why, he hadn't seen the
Woman until to-night!
From the first chord of the Grieg concerto to the finale of the Chopin ballade,
Ruth had sat tensely on the edge of her chair. And when we see them we shall at
once want to go to them—that’s the way with beautiful things—and down we
shall go, like flies down a wall, to Leukerbad, and so to Leuk Station, here, and
then by train up the Rhone Valley and this little side valley to Stalden; and there,
in the cool of the afternoon, we shall start off up a gorge, torrents and cliffs
below us and above us, to sleep in a half-way inn, and go on next day to Saas
Fee, Saas of the Magic, Saas of the Pagan People. That there would eventually be a lover Ruth knew; and she waited his
appearance upon the scene, waited with an impatience which was both personal
and literary.
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