"
"I'm sorry I mentioned it at all, since it distresses you," returned Winifred; "but,
as I knew my father intended to propose to you, if poor Jack should be respited
—"
"If he should be respited?" repeated Mrs. Ramage looked at her for a long and discriminating interval without speaking. Ever since he came here, three months ago, he has been the life and soul of
the place; and now the death warrant has arrived, instead of being cast down, as
most men would be, and as all others are, he's gayer than ever. ‘Dead then, is he?’
‘If I could say that he is dead, it would give me very much satisfaction. "I am. "
"Perhaps not," replied Jack, carelessly. Ruth's gaze wandered from the printed
page. Dear God,
what a beautiful moment!"
The fire went out of Spurlock's eyes and the shadow of hopeless weariness fell
upon him. "Did you ever hear me whine?"
"No," admitted McClintock
"You've no objection to my dropping in again later, after your guests go?"
"No. In any place her beauty would have been an uncommon
thing. She repeated this breathlessly. “Go on!”
“People talked to you in Paris about us,” she continued, “about Anna the
virtuous and Annabel the rake. He had put himself before the threshold of damnation; for Ruth was
now a vestal in the temple.
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