He glanced at Ruth (who had stood with her back
to the wall, pinned there throughout the contest by terror and the knowledge of
her own helplessness), then at the bronze menace, and calculated correctly that
this particular adventure was finished. There was the stile on which
Jonathan had sat, and he recollected distinctly the effect of his mocking glance—
how it had hardened his heart against his mother's prayer. It comes over the mountains, Anna, pink darkening into orange red,
everywhere a wonderful cloud sea, scintillating with colour. That he should pay forty pounds to help this girl who preferred another man
was no less in his eyes than a fraud and mockery that made her denial a
maddening and outrageous disgrace to him. It
reverberated in the silence. "
"If he had only been my father!—McClintock!"
"God didn't standardize human beings, Ruth; no grain of wheat is like another. “May I enquire,” he asked smoothly, “in what way my appearance contributes to
your amusement? If there is a joke I should like to share it. “I wonder—I
wonder if we shall ever get like that. For his own part he could not sufficiently admire the pluck of this
lady, who, notwithstanding all that she had been through, had chosen to appear
this evening rather than break her engagement. She looked about and discovered a door partially hidden by shadow. ‘It does not matter, Jacques.
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