She wished he could smoke and dull his nerves a
little. For just as though a vague likeness is sometimes
borne swiftly in upon one, so a vague dissimilarity between the face on the
poster and the heroine of his thoughts had slowly crept into his consciousness. At length the manager arrived; and together he and Ruth succeeded in getting
some of the aromatic spirits of ammonia down the patient's throat. "
"A short man, isn't he, about your height, Sir,—with a yellow beard, and a face
as sly as a fox's?"
"Hem!" replied Wood, coughing slightly to conceal a smile; "the description's
not amiss. A little smothered cry broke from her lips—the
curtains were thrown aside and a man stepped out. The same old lines and verses, over and over, until there had come times
when shrieking would have relieved her. “Non. ’
‘And was not she put out?’ demanded Miss Froxfield with a tinkling laugh. Hoddy. ‘That would have grieved
Jarvis. How would it
serve Nicholas to keep the truth from his daughter? A tiny thread of disquiet
troubled him. "And, oh!
forgive me, though I can never forgive myself, for the misery I have caused
you. "
"I've been wondering, too. She
realized that no man had ever placed a mantle of respect
upon her as Sebastian did; respect for more than just her
pretty face and her now lost ability to bear children. .
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