Their houses became a refuge of ill
repute, the source of rumor and intrigue in the highest
echelons of society. Did he intend to kill her now, this instant? Or had she a
moment or two to try to save herself? Recalling Leonardo’s dictum, she did not
struggle, for that would only tighten the trap about her, and perhaps even spring
it. ‘You have come to me in place of Gérard? But how is it you will help me?’
‘That’s all right and tight. "But I wish her hand had been as deadly as yours. "
"Decidedly so," replied Edgeworth Bess; "and I'll take this opportunity, while
Jack's back is turned,—for he's grown so strangely particular,—of easing him of
his snuff-box. But she did not in the least want to do that. This child was frequently
disconcerting. So, step by step,
and hurt by hurt, Ruth was learning that John Smith was John Smith and nobody
else.
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