He reached a silver cigar and cigarette box from the sideboard
and put it before his father-in-law, and for a time the preliminaries of smoking
occupied them both. The policeman raised his voice, slightly
agitated. Her head felt absurdly like one of those noddling
manikins in the Hong-Kong curio-shops. Automatically, she glanced at the slight red graze left on her neck that marked
the point where Gerald’s sword had nicked her. I'm not hungry. Tum, tum, tirray, tum, tum, tum, te-tum—that thing of
Mendelssohn’s! If making one human being absolutely happy is any satisfaction
to you—”
He held out his hands, and she also stood up. Ruth met him in the hall as he was following his
family into the dining room. He was angry. At times he seemed to be claiming
pity from her; at times he was threatening her with her check and exposure; at
times he was boasting of his inflexible will, and how, in the end, he always got
what he wanted. It's gin—a liquor you used to like. She had a gold watch, a
very good gold watch that had been her mother’s, a pearl necklace that was also
pretty good, some unpretending rings, some silver bangles and a few other such
inferior trinkets, three pounds thirteen shillings unspent of her dress and book
allowance and a few good salable books. It ought never to have begun. Just as Hogarth got to the door, the turnkey
stopped him. Drink this!”
He poured out a glass of wine with a firm hand, and held it to her lips.
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