”
Presently, as if for comparison with her father’s letter, she got out Ramage’s
check from the box that contained her papers. ”
Lucy added, growing weary. Already he was dramatizing Ruth, involving her, now in some pearl
thieving adventure, now in some impossible tale of a white goddess. To her mind, recalling the
picture of him the night before, there had been something tragic in the grim
silent manner of his tippling. These were so
outside her experience that she found it possible to thrust them almost out of
sight by saying they would be “all right” in confident tones to herself. Stonily he had disengaged himself. She was alarmed at how little her husband
Gianfrancesco packed for the trip, leaving behind his best
scarlet and black lucco, which he wore for every business
and political meeting. He flung aside all his talk of help and disinterested friendship as though it had
never been even a disguise between them, as though from the first it was no
more than a fancy dress they had put quite understandingly upon their
relationship. She had never expected John
capable of saying such things, of thinking such macabre
ideas. He held in his hands many threads. The day before this examination was appointed to take place—the third of the
prisoner's detention—an old man, respectably dressed, requested permission to
see him. ’
‘Please forgive, milor’, but my wife, and even I myself, have yet very much
trouble with English.
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