The big gray spaces of London, the shop-lit, greasy, shining streets, had
become very remote; the biological laboratory with its work and emotions, the
meetings and discussions, the rides in hansoms with Ramage, were like things in
a book read and closed. The only difference between the officers of Newgate and their brethren was, that
they had enormous bunches of keys at their girdles, while the latter had left their
keys at home. That boy—blind as a bat! Why, he hadn't seen the
Woman until to-night!
From the first chord of the Grieg concerto to the finale of the Chopin ballade,
Ruth had sat tensely on the edge of her chair. “You will come back, won’t you?”
He nodded cheerfully. . It is foolish, she murmured to
herself, foolish. The call of youth to youth, and we name it love for want of something better: a
glamorous, evanescent thing "like snow upon the desert's dusty face, lighting a
little hour or two, was gone. You know the danger of this breakneck road as
well as I do. The
ceiling had, in many places, given way; the laths had been removed; and, where
any plaster remained, it was either mapped and blistered with damps, or
festooned with dusty cobwebs. \"
\"I'm sorry I didn't call. . May I be permitted, as a very old and very dear friend of your lamented
parent, whose loss I shall ever deplore, to ask you one question?"
"Undoubtedly," replied Winifred.
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