‘And I trust you will pardon my inadequacies. The customary gold band was missing; but a soft gold Chinese ring Spurlock
had picked up in Singapore—the characters representing good luck and
prosperity—was slipped over Ruth's third finger. CHAPTER VIII. The haste to send her upon her way now had but one interpretation—the
recognition of his own immediate danger, the fear that if this tender association
continued, he would end in offering her a calamity quite as impossible as that
which had happened—the love of a man who was in all probability older than
her father! The hurt was no less intensive because it was so ridiculous. ”
He sat like a man turned to stone. ”
“For the others,” Annabel said tearfully, “that is well enough. S. They may love us, but
they love us as the slave loves his captor, not as equals. I have only seen your sister for a very brief time, and I am a little
past the age when a man does headstrong things. She understood. “Yes?”
“You remember once, how we talked—at a gate on the Downs? We talked
about how a girl might get an independent living. "Surely," she said, after a pause, "you don't attach any importance to what my
mother has just said.
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