She could not be more than twenty; and though want and other
suffering had done the work of time, had wasted her frame, and robbed her
cheek of its bloom and roundness, they had not extinguished the lustre of her
eyes, nor thinned her raven hair. “I find the two inseparable. There was a round table covered, not
with the usual “tapestry” cover, but with a plain green cloth that went passably
with the wall-paper. 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. This lapse was possibly due to her apparent
determination to make full protest of Hilary’s conduct. That boy," he added, looking
at Thames, "has his eye upon us. ‘You were supposed to be nursing him,’ Martha grumbled, ‘and helping him
convalesce. "
"You are an angel, I say," continued the poor maniac; "and my Jack would have
been like you, if he had lived. . E. There’s hardly a
night she doesn’t sneak out of the house.
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