"Spare him!" cried Mrs, Sheppard, who fancied she had made some impression
on the obdurate breast of the thief-taker,—"spare him! and I will forgive you,
will thank you, bless you. To take Spring and Love out of her life, as if there were
no human instincts to tell Ruth what was being denied her! And what must have
been the man's thought as he came upon Ruth wearing a gown of her mother's?
—a fair picture of the mother in the primrose days? Not a flicker of an eyelash;
steel and granite outwardly. She rose briskly,
turned on the light, and opened Les Misérables to the episode of the dark forest:
where Jean Valjean reaches out and takes Cosette's frightful pail from her
chapped little hands. To her, marriage would be a buckler against the
two evils which pursued her. "I don't know; I really don't know. And Ann Veronica walked
beside him, trying in vain to soften her heart to him by the thought of how she
had ill-used him, and all the time, as her feet and mind grew weary together,
rejoicing more and more that at the cost of this one interminable walk she
escaped the prospect of—what was it?—“Ten thousand days, ten thousand
nights” in his company. She stood up and he
sat down at the microscope, and for a time he was busy scrutinizing one section
after another. He had a
narrow escape, however; for, passing within an inch of him, the bullet burried
itself deeply in the wall. You don’t deserve it, but he does. Thought she was a nun at first. Henry Clay, thirteen
cents in Hong-Kong and two-bits in that dear old New York. Pretend to weep both of you as loudly as you can. He first met her
when he had caught her smoking behind the Joliet LaudrO-Matic one cool overcast day in late August. "Those tears will do
you good. There is Shaw,
and Webb, and Wilkins the author, and Toomer, and Doctor Tumpany—the most
wonderful people! There you see them discussing, deciding, planning! Just think
—THEY ARE MAKING A NEW WORLD!”
“But ARE these people going to alter everything?” said Ann Veronica.
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