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Great stone staircases leading no one knew whither, and long
gloomy passages, impressed the occasional visitor with the idea that he was
traversing a building of vast extent; and, though this was not the case in reality,
the deception was so cleverly contrived that it seldom failed of producing the
intended effect. The law would accord
her all her previous rights: she would return to the exact status out of which in
his madness he had taken her. Not so Gosse. She went to her room and changed the
loose morning gown in which she had lunched for a dark walking dress. She had no idea what she should do. She was writhing
to get her hands loose and found herself gasping with passionate violence, “It’s
damnable!—damnable!” to the manifest disgust of the fatherly policeman on her
right. They unloaded Michelle’s
sleeping parents who had been propped up in the back
seat, necks craned against each other. You just married
her. She approached Ruth with
open arms; and something in the way the child came into that kindly embrace
hurt the older woman to the point of tears. In military
circles, highly exaggerated tales of Major Alderley’s derring-do were bruited
from lip to lip and passed on to raw recruits to strengthen morale. ‘And if not her, for she is dead, then
me. The thin stream of blood on which her eyes
were fastened with a nameless horror reached almost to her feet. The idea of Ruth as a
talisman against misfortune—which he now recognized as a sick man's idea—
faded as his appreciation of the absurd reasserted itself.
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