He put his free arm around her and held the censer ready; and as Ruth snuggled
her cheek against his sleeve, they were, so far as intent, in each other's arms. "
"My strength fails me," gasped the fugitive. On that night, an extraordinary event occurred, which convinced the authorities
that every precaution must be taken in conducting Jack to Tyburn,—a fact of
which they had been previously made aware, though scarcely to the same extent,
by the riotous proceedings near Westminster Hall. To-night all this may seem hard and cruel. . She was flushed, and her eyes were
bright and angry; her breath came sobbing, and her hair was all abroad in
wandering strands of black. "You think our sex has no feeling, I suppose, Sir," cried Mrs. ‘No, Melusine. “You have dyed your hair and
darkened your eyebrows. "And now, widow," he continued, "attend to the next verse, for it consarns a
friend o' yours. "Adorable girl, I have long loved you to
desperation. A strange betrothal!—the primal idea of which was escape! The girl, intent upon
abrogating for ever all legal rights of the father in the daughter, of rendering
innocuous the thing she had now named the Terror: the boy, seeking selfcrucifixion in expiation of his transgression, changing a peccadillo into
damnation!
It was easy for Ruth to surrender to the idea, for she believed she was loved; and
in gratitude it was already her determination to give this boy her heart's blood,
drop by drop, if he wanted it. ‘Monsieur Charvill thought perhaps that his daughter
would find not a welcome.
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