"Jack Sheppard had a visitor, I understand, yesterday, and may
make an attempt to escape. He put down his hat and umbrella,
rested his hands on his hips, and regarded Ann Veronica firmly. Ruth hugged the envelope and McClintock, with the end of a burnt
match, drew a cabalistic sign. ‘Thank you,’ she said, leaning heavily on his arm for a moment. Her features were still slightly
marked by the disorder alluded to in the description of her as a child,—but that
was the only drawback to her beauty. The wall of the sky, the wall of the
horizon, the wall behind which each human being hid—the wall behind which
she herself was hiding! If only her mother had lived, her darling mother!
Presently the unhappy puzzlement left her face; and an inward glow began to
lighten it. A strange betrothal!—the primal idea of which was escape! The girl, intent upon
abrogating for ever all legal rights of the father in the daughter, of rendering
innocuous the thing she had now named the Terror: the boy, seeking selfcrucifixion in expiation of his transgression, changing a peccadillo into
damnation!
It was easy for Ruth to surrender to the idea, for she believed she was loved; and
in gratitude it was already her determination to give this boy her heart's blood,
drop by drop, if he wanted it. ‘Gerald, what have you been about? Dorothée tells me that you were
flirting outrageously with Madame Valade on Monday night. and Mrs. “Oh, Michelle, I’m such a miserable fool.
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