Eventually this comradeship
(slightly resented by Rollo) reached a point where he could call out from the
study: "Hey, Ruth!—come and tell me what you think of this. What is your father's business?"
The question was an impertinence, but Ruth was not aware of that. ”
“It cannot be!”
“It is in the grimoires. It was a charming sight to watch the motions of her tiny fingers as she pursued
her task; and though the posture she adopted was not the most favourable that
might have been chosen for the display of her sylphlike figure, there was
something in her attitude, and the glow of her countenance, lighted up by the
mellow radiance of the setting sun falling upon her through the panes of the little
dormer-window, that seemed to the youth inexpressibly beautiful. She
had the same sharp nose—which, indeed, only Ann Veronica, of all the family,
had escaped. She was clear there were no other minds like them in all the world. ’
‘Very much so,’ Gerald said, matching her tone, and at once forced the
discussion back to his own point of interest by adding, ‘I was particularly struck
by those poor Valades. She could not realize what she saw. Behind them stalked Blueskin, enveloped in a
rough great-coat, called—appropriately enough in this instance,—a wrap-rascal. Even though the individual faces of her audience were not
to be singled out, she had been conscious from the first moment of her
appearance that something was wrong. John introduced the tall boy. ‘A
convenient desire, Mademoiselle Charvill. Gianfrancesco took her that night gently, for which
she was glad.
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