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This she did carefully, but inwardly commenting that he was still in the realm of
strange fancies. Annabel looked up and down the empty street, and then turned to her sister. It wasn’t. There was an air of repressed gaiety in her actions: the sense of
freedom had returned; her heart was empty again. 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.
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