Unless there
was some real metal in the young fool, some hidden strength with which to
breast the current, Ruth would become a millstone around his neck and soon he
would become to her an object of pity and contempt. ’
To her astonishment, Gosse’s servile attitude vanished abruptly. But there is need for the proof that I am me, and that is what I look
for. What was the name on those
marriage lines you showed me?’
‘M—Melusine,’ stammered the woman, her countenance yet registering
shock. He talked at the blackboard in
a pleasant, very slightly lisping voice with a curious spontaneity, and was
sometimes very clumsy in his exposition, and sometimes very vivid. ‘Tell me the truth, Melusine. She
had known that Remenham House would be deserted, for Martha—released, as
she had carefully explained to her charge, by her vows to God from servitude
and obedience to Nicholas Charvill, a mere mortal—had begun a
correspondence with a friend of her youth, Mrs Joan Ibstock, née Pottiswick. She was very pale, and
there was a look of fear in her eyes. However, it don't signify. You shirk a straightforward and decent return for what you get from us—
taking refuge in purity and delicacy and such-like when it comes to payment. “Will you tell Sydney that I will see him in the morning,” he said. ”
They returned to the Beck house and he walked her to
the front door. “One day,” he resumed, “we will start off early and come down into
Kandersteg and up these zigzags and here and here, and so past this Daubensee
to a tiny inn—it won’t be busy yet, though; we may get it all to ourselves—on
the brim of the steepest zigzag you can imagine, thousands of feet of zigzag; and
you will sit and eat lunch with me and look out across the Rhone Valley and over
blue distances beyond blue distances to the Matterhorn and Monte Rosa and a
long regiment of sunny, snowy mountains. Pah! What a pig is this générale. Considering how little he lets her have.
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