An ill-lined
purse is a poor recompense for the risk I have run. “I’m five years older
than you, and no end wiser, being a man. Born on a South Sea island, she said. ’ She pronounced the name
with painstaking accuracy, Gerald noticed. At the back of her mind, dim and yet
disconcerting, was the perception that she herself did not know what she wanted. Well, I'll take myself off. The
prison gates were besieged like the entrance of a booth at a fair; and the
Condemned Hold where he was confined, and to which visitors were admitted at
the moderate rate of a guinea a-head, had quite the appearance of a showroom. Ruth, having
decided a course for herself—that of renunciation—and having the strength to
keep it, met these advances in precisely the mood they were offered. The wall of the sky, the wall of the
horizon, the wall behind which each human being hid—the wall behind which
she herself was hiding! If only her mother had lived, her darling mother!
Presently the unhappy puzzlement left her face; and an inward glow began to
lighten it. "Better than your company, Saint Giles," replied Sheppard; "so, shut the door,
and make yourself scarce. With me
behaving as if everything was infinitely matter-of-fact, what could he do? And
just then Heaven sent old Manningtree—I didn’t tell you before of the fortunate
intervention of Manningtree, did I? He was looking quite infernally
distinguished, with a wide crimson ribbon across him—what IS a wide crimson
ribbon? Some sort of knight, I suppose. 26
His duties were to make certain that she was eating right
and not exposing herself to foul odors and cold drafts.
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