Ruth was inflammable; she would always be flaring up swiftly, in pity, in
tenderness, in anger; she would always be answering impulses, without seeking
to weigh or to analyse them. ”
Part 5
One afternoon, while everything was still, the wardress heard her cry out
suddenly and alarmingly, and with great and unmistakable passion, “Why in the
name of goodness did I burn that twenty pounds?”
Part 6
She sat regarding her dinner. When he comes he will do that raid of the pantechnicons
the justice it deserves; he will picture the orderly evening scene about the
Imperial Legislature in convincing detail, the coming and going of cabs and
motor-cabs and broughams through the chill, damp evening into New Palace
Yard, the reinforced but untroubled and unsuspecting police about the entries of
those great buildings whose square and panelled Victorian Gothic streams up
from the glare of the lamps into the murkiness of the night; Big Ben shining
overhead, an unassailable beacon, and the incidental traffic of Westminster, cabs,
carts, and glowing omnibuses going to and from the bridge. ‘Of course the fellow has doubtless stayed put to wait for you,’ retorted Hilary. “You’re a student, perhaps?” said the tall
woman.
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