Sordid; but that was not Ruth's term
for it; she had no precise commentary to offer. “Come on in. After
fifteen years, to find that peculiarly Occidental attribute—college loyalty—still
alive in his heart! A Western idea that had survived; an idea that was merely the
flower of youthful enthusiasm!
With his hands still in his sleeves, his chin down in speculation over this
phenomenon, he continued his patrol. "And so you've given up all hope of escaping, eh, Jack?" remarked Hogarth. ”
“It is,” he replied, “the one humiliation of my life. Yes, yes, there is no doubt
about it. “Miss Pellissier,” he said, “don’t!”
“Why not?” she asked, smiling. In one angle of the room stood a disused fire-place, with a rusty
grate and broken chimney-piece; in the other there was a sort of box, contrived
between the wall and the boards, that looked like an apology for a cupboard. He is probably very wealthy. He loved Ann Veronica, he said; he was so mad to have her
that he defeated himself, and did crude and alarming and senseless things. His clothes were smartly pressed, his linen white, his jaws
cleanly shaven; but the day would come when he would grow indifferent to
bodily cleanliness.
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