But threats and entreaties—even promises were ineffectual; and
the unlucky captive, after exhausting his powers of persuasion, was compelled to
give up the point. "
"Well then, to change it," replied Thames, gravely, "suppose I should be obliged
to leave you. She sat very still, and his eyes rested on that ornament for a moment, and then
travelled slowly to her wrist and the soft lines of her forearm. Pearls too! I mean it. Sordid; but that was not Ruth's term
for it; she had no precise commentary to offer. "
"My wealth," replied Mrs. Ann Veronica, with a sigh at the cost of
hospitality, made a hasty negotiation for an extra tea and for a fire in the groundfloor apartment, and preened herself carefully for the interview. Her father was right: Ruth must never know. She had made her first fight for dignity and freedom
as a grown-up and independent Person, and this was how the universe had
treated her.
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