There was no disgust in Ruth's heart, only an infinite pity; for only the
pitiful understand. Sydney was strumming over
a new song which stood upon the piano. He could not move; but stood like one
stupified, with his hands clasped together, and eyes almost starting out of their
sockets, fixed upon his unfortunate parent. It was as if Grace-church
Street, with all its shops, its magazines, and ceaseless throng of passengers, were
stretched from the Middlesex to the Surrey shore. There was a tearing sound as the canvas gave way, and the precious portrait
ripped apart as the top of the Frenchman’s head came through it. But underneath this tolerance there is
always the vague hope that your manhood will someday reassert itself. Paris is not the place for two young girls. A little
within stood a second door, or rather wicket, lower than the first, but of equal
strength, and surmounted by a row of sharp spikes. ’
Gerald suppressed a grin. "Rather in the way. She was
dressed in a simple evening gown of soft creamy silk, with a yoke of dark old
embroidery that enhanced the gentle gravity of her style, and her black hair
flowed off her open forehead to pass under the control of a simple ribbon of
silver. She didn’t like the shops, she didn’t
like the other women’s faces; she thought the smirking men in frock-coats who
dominated these establishments the most intolerable persons she had ever had to
face. You are my
wife now and you belong to me. If we don’t live it will
think we are afraid of it.
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