She began to read, and presently she entered another
world, and remained in it for two hours. There was no disgust in Ruth's heart, only an infinite pity; for only the
pitiful understand. The coachman
answered by a surly grunt, and, plying his whip with redoubled zeal, shaped his
course down Dyot Street; traversed that part of Holborn, which is now called
Broad Street, and where two ancient alms-houses were, then, standing in the
middle of that great thoroughfare, exactly opposite the opening of Compston
Street; and, diving under a wide gateway on the left, soon reached a more open
space, surrounded by mean habitations, coach-houses and stables, called
Kendrick Yard, at the further end of which Saint Giles's round-house was
situated. “I can’t help saying it,” she said, with the
quality of her voice altering, “but I do NOT think it is right for an unprotected
girl to be in London alone as you are. Cursed him for his devotion that had
made him come back for her, only to get himself shot by the fiendish Gosse. ’
‘I have found Mary Remenham’s daughter,’ he repeated. As Jack appeared to be
sinking fast, his fetters were removed, his own clothes were returned to him, and
he was allowed a mattress and a scanty supply of bed-linen. She moaned as she touched him. She felt terribly modern,
even sporty as the magazines declared you should be. Your name?"
"Owen Wood," replied the carpenter; "I've no reason to be ashamed of it. Later, when the Reverend Henry Dolby entered the Spurlock room, his wife and
daughter trailing amusedly behind him, and beheld the strained eagerness on the
two young faces, he smiled inwardly and indulgently. Her family are solid West End people, Kensington people. He had more
time for her.
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