He first met her
when he had caught her smoking behind the Joliet LaudrO-Matic one cool overcast day in late August. Madame Valade was that kind of woman. “There are a few fees. Suddenly all this makes you human. . I was stupid—stupid
and impulsive beyond measure to burst upon you in this way. She walked down the station approach, past the neat, obtrusive offices of the
coal merchant and the house agent, and so to the wicket-gate by the butcher’s
shop that led to the field path to her home. . His
manner, however, was as stern and haughty as ever, and his glances retained
their accustomed fire. Here was an experienced man of the
world, her friend, who evidently took a great interest in this supreme topic and
was willing to give her the benefit of his experiences! Why should not she be at
her ease with him? Why should not she know things? It is hard enough anyhow
for a human being to learn, she decided, but it is a dozen times more difficult
than it need be because of all this locking of the lips and thoughts. Just as the attendants were preparing to lower the corpse into the earth, Jack fell
on his knees beside the coffin, uttering the wildest exclamations of grief,
reproaching himself with the murder of his mother, and invoking the vengeance
of Heaven on his own head. "
"The very face," exclaimed Gay, advancing to look at it;—"with all the escapes
written in it. "
The feminine vanities in Ruth were quiescent; nothing had ever occurred in her
life to tingle them into action.
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