Ruth met him in the hall as he was following his
family into the dining room. He turned, expecting to see his wife. “The truth!” It was a moment of awkwardness between the two sisters
—a moment, too, charged with its own psychological interest, for there were
secrets between them which for many months had made their intercourse a
constrained and difficult thing. ‘Certainly those are names of the most undistinguished,
and I would scorn to have them. What a buzz of admiration
ran round the court as he appeared! And, how handsome and composed he
looked! Everybody wondered that such a stripling could commit such desperate
robberies. Capes?” she heard her aunt saying. It is a serious accusation. Before retracing his steps, however, he allowed his gaze to range
over the vast and beautiful prospect spread out beneath him, which is now
hidden, from the traveller's view by the high walls of the General Cemetery, and
can, consequently, only be commanded from the interior of that attractive place
of burial,—and which, before it was intersected by canals and railroads, and
portioned out into hippodromes, was exquisite indeed. Ownership seemed only a reasonable return for the cares
and expenses of a daughter’s upbringing. ’
‘Yes, indeed,’ agreed Lucilla enthusiastically. I may say
that the amount of the annuity I propose to allow you is two hundred a year. You are too credulous. . "I am too much honoured—too happy
in the union.
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