”
“I’m not. She did not understand the note of hostility to men that
ran through it all, the bitter vindictiveness that lit Miss Miniver’s cheeks and
eyes, the sense of some at last insupportable wrong slowly accumulated. One nail drives out another, it's true; but the worst nail you
can employ is a coffin-nail. Later, she would
sew it on. He knew that at this moment Ruth lay upon
her bed in torment, for she was by nature tender; and the reaction of her scathing
words, no matter how justifiable, would be putting scars on her soul. I know you
are in Jonathan Wild's power, for I saw him near you in the church; and if ever
the enemy of mankind was permitted to take human form, I beheld him then. "
"Ruth what?"
"Enschede; Ruth Enschede. He
was certain that those lips of hers had never known the natural and pardonable
simper of youth. That shining
slope of snow, and how we talked of death! We might have died! Even when we
are old, when we are rich as we may be, we won’t forget the tune when we cared
nothing for anything but the joy of one another, when we risked everything for
one another, when all the wrappings and coverings seemed to have fallen from
life and left it light and fire.
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