Stanley regarded him through his glasses with something approaching
animosity. You know I am in love with you. It was
lent me by a countryman o' mine; but I paid him back in his own coin—ha! ha!"
"A countryman of yours, Terry?"
"Ay, and a noble one, too, Quilt—more's the pity! You've heard of the Marquis
of Slaughterford, belike?"
"Of course; who has not? He's the leader of the Mohocks, the general of the
Scourers, the prince of rakes, the friend of the surgeons and glaziers, the terror of
your tribe, and the idol of the girls!"
"That's him to a hair?" cried Terence, rapturously. "
"They always act like that after drink," said Ruth, casually. His eyes were narrow with
desire like a panther’s as he grinned at seeing her visibly
satisfied. He
hated travelling second-class with her—indeed, he never did—but he also
disliked travelling in the same train when his daughter was in an inferior class,
because of the look of the thing. He seemed inexorable, and
inscrutable as fate itself. "Hold hard," cried he,
addressing the waterman; "I'll give the gentleman a lift. ’
‘Certainly that is true. He will not provide for the
daughter.
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