“By Jove!” he
broke out, “one tries to take a serious, sober view. “Okay. She wanted to live. It did not cheer or fortify him with false
courage and recklessness; it simply enveloped him in a mist of unreality. "
"I am calm—quite calm, Rowland," she answered, with lips whose agitation
belied her words. Sheppard's dress—extremely
neat and clean, but simply fashioned, and of the plainest and most unpretending
material,—offered nothing assailable; and her demeanour was so humble, and
her looks so modest, that—if she had been ill-looking—she might, possibly,
have escaped the shafts of malice preparing to be levelled against her. He smiled at Ruth as she turned away from the bed, smiled
with both his mouth and eyes; and she knew that here would be a man of heart as
well as of science. ‘I don’t propose doing anything with you. The hope that had been suddenly kindled in the youth's bosom was as suddenly
extinguished. “Why come after me after all these years, Sebastianus?
Haven’t you found any sycophants to convert, any nubile
young nymphets to bring into the cannibal flock?”
“Why should I do that if there is still the chance of
you?”
“What if there could be no chance of me? How do
you know you can have me?”
“I see your game.
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