”
“Would you like to be a boy?”
“I wonder! It’s out of the question, any way. She saw the Chamberlain girls getting into a
plethora of different cars (with barely a stitch on) with
young men who seemed unnaturally excited about their
first “dates”. She was consumed by misery and hate. 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. He was
always forgetting that his tummy was fifty-four years old. Once in the room, the door locked, the sense of loneliness had dropped away
from her as the mists used to drop away from the mountain in the morning. “Martin, you realize that I’m dating someone, don’t
you?” She knew his reply before he uttered it. She would not look at him, would not think of him; when
her mind wavered, then she muttered to herself in the darkness so as to keep hold
of her generalizations. "Devil!" cried Jack; "that blow shall cost you your life. "If you won't disclose your name, I will for you!
You are Jonathan Wild!"
"Further concealment is needless," answered the other, pulling off his wig and
black patch, and resuming his natural tone of voice; "I am Jonathan Wild!"
"Say you so!" rejoined Kneebone; "then be this your passport to eternity. But
I will not believe you. ’
‘How shocking. I’ve got to stay at home and remain in a state of suspended
animation. What she
admired in her man was his resolute defense of his opinions.
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