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He was really very bright and clever, with a sort of
conversational boldness that was just within the limits of permissible daring. Ruth had not expected to be kissed; so the omission passed unnoted. It was an intimate smell, the
unmistakable scent of him and another woman. ‘I can answer that. ‘You’re the most troublesome wretch I’ve ever encountered,’ he told her
bitterly. She did not wait, but grabbed
up the lantern and slid into the passage, calling to them to hurry. ‘What is it?’
‘Er—shouldn’t I tell—I mean, the young lady, sir—’
‘You can leave the young lady to me. All
at once he saw a way out of the threatening doldrums. "
"Hurt her? It would tear her to pieces; God knows she has had enough. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's
story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable
impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way?
CHAPTER XV
Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry,
so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool
which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there
were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in
normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. ”
Anna laughed, gave in and with deft fingers created order out of chaos. As such, you may command the sympathies of the gentry.
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