" And,
with the uninjured hand he drew a pistol, which he fired, but without effect, at
Jack. But the world didn’t do that. "You hear," pursued Jonathan; "my friend desires to know if you are willing to
pay your footing as a member of the ancient and respectable fraternity of
debtors?"
"I owe no man a farthing, and my name shall never appear in any such rascally
list," replied Wood angrily. I don’t
understand the workings of a gentleman’s mind. I can understand
now these newspapers when they talk of your magnificent philanthropy. Love
lives on a higher plane. It seemed to her that it was her duty to get
up and clamor to go home to her room, to protest against his advances as an
insult. For a long time he stared at the empty doorway. Melusine glanced towards the
elderly dame and found that sharp gaze directed upon her. It was still raining heavily, and profoundly dark. ‘Then I am not mad in the least. Unless there
was some real metal in the young fool, some hidden strength with which to
breast the current, Ruth would become a millstone around his neck and soon he
would become to her an object of pity and contempt.
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