"His disguise was capital; but I detected it
in a moment. He knew not how to act, urged as
he was in two directions. ’
‘No, I won’t. "I know
my life is valuable to you, or you would not spare it. Imagination, coloured by the obscurity, peopled the air with phantoms. And I’m off to America, and if my steamer
goes to the bottom of the Atlantic I’ll thank the Lord for it. ’
‘I could have done so at the first and saved you the pain,’ she told him merrily. ”
“I am your friend,” he said slowly, “whatever you may have to tell me. His features
were regular, and finely-formed; his complexion bright and blooming,—a little
shaded, however, by travel and exposure to the sun; and, with a praiseworthy
contempt for the universal and preposterous fashion then prevailing, of
substituting a peruke for the natural covering of the head, he allowed his own
dark-brown hair to fall over his shoulders in ringlets as luxuriant as those that
distinguished the court gallant in Charles the Second's days—a fashion, which
we do not despair of seeing revived in our own days. ‘No! Let me alone!’
‘It is not safe!’
‘That is entirely my affair, and not your affair in the least,’ she told him
haughtily. From then on he was Ruth's dog.
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