"There's another
instance of your wilfulness and want of taste. It was at breakfast on this day that he told Ruth he had sent to
Batavia for some dresses. He had invited himself to dine with her
merely to watch her table manners. There was a round table covered, not
with the usual “tapestry” cover, but with a plain green cloth that went passably
with the wall-paper. The
ruffled chemise-front under the wide lapels of her waistcoat and jacket no longer
quivered, and her pose, with the full cloth petticoat spreading about her, was
relaxed. Then he hovered undecidedly for some seconds
with his hands in his pockets and his mouth puckered to a whistle before he
turned to go home by the Avenue. A wrathful God was
watching him. “David,” she said, “you are not a coward, are you?”
“I do not know,” he muttered. I tried. "
"You need never be afraid of that," returned Winifred, affectionately; "my father
will take care you never leave him more. 58
\"Why will you not touch me?\" She cried out, sitting
up, her head in her hands.
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