‘You don’t mean to say she’s here?’
‘Was,’ Gerald corrected. “I’ve broken off my
engagement,” she said, in a matter-of-fact tone, and found her heart thumping in
her neck. Ruth went on to explain. I’ve
been on the watch for you. “These are the times that would make me glad to live
forever, if only they lasted. One or
two of the tables were occupied by groups of fat frowzy women in flat caps, with
rings on their thumbs, and baskets by their sides; and no one who had listened
for a single moment to their coarse language and violent abuse of each other,
would require to be told they were fish-wives from Billingsgate. He had
been dreaming of Ruth—an old recurrency of that dream he had had in Canton,
of Ruth leading him to the top of the mountain. She turned the gas up in her little sitting-room, and sank
wearily into an easy chair. I will not trust you. But one could not count with
any confidence upon Capes. Melusine, intent upon preventing Gosse from
securing the fallen weapon, paid no attention. “I think, aunt,” she said, “you might trust to my self-respect to keep me
out of that.
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