"Tomorrow I shall have a visitor. And there was another matter. ‘Why have you come in here?’ demanded Melusine, turning on him. I had dreamt of the olive
grove beyond the courtyard I had once been fascinated
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with as a boy. She shrank from him as he gripped her hand more
forcibly. His eyes were
fixed upon her face, but he opened his lips twice before he spoke. As the novel grew Ruth was astonished to see herself enter and dominate it:
sometimes as she actually was, with all her dreams reviewed—as if he had
caught her talking in her sleep. Parties, politics, and
popular opinions have changed. . Following this direction, he opened a gate, and struck into one of the
most beautiful green lanes imaginable; which, after various windings, conducted
him into a more frequented road, and eventually brought him to the place he
sought. Come with
me to the Condemned Hold directly, and, if I find my fears confirmed, I'll—"
He was here interrupted by the sudden entrance of the black, who rushed
precipitately into the room, letting fall the heavy bunch of keys in his fright. If only sometimes he would grow angry at her, impatient! But his tender
courtesy was unfailing; and under this would be the abiding bitterness of having
mistaken gratitude for love. ”
“I care as a man cares only once in his life,” he answered promptly. She stood looking
down upon him with dilated eyes. It was as if she had grown right past her father into
something older and of infinitely wider outlook, as if he had always been
unsuspectedly a flattened figure, and now she had discovered him from the other
side.
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