A
disagreeable young man, with red hair and a loose mouth, seated at the reporter’s
table, was only too manifestly sketching her. ‘Do you at least know how he came to be in a position to cheat Miss Charvill,
and to pass off his wife in her place?’
‘In her place?’ There was no mistaking the boy’s ignorance of this part of the
tale. The aspect of the place, so far as he
could discern through the gloom, was strange to him; but chancing to raise his
eyes above the level of the surrounding habitations, he beheld, relieved against
the sombre sky, the tall steeple of Saint Giles's church, the precursor of the
present structure, which was not erected till some fifteen years later. ’
‘Dunderhead. I don't care how lonesome it is. The kindly American consul-general had himself taken her to the bank,
where her banknotes had been exchanged for a letter of credit, and had
thoroughly advised her. Monsieur could rely upon his special attention, and for the cooking—well, he
had his customers, who came from their homes to him year after year. He handed Ruth a letter. "How much is there in it!"
"It contains gold," replied the lady; "but I will add this ring. Mr. I’ve never had these
crying fits before. ”
“You and I and Brendon get on all right, don’t we?” Sydney objected.
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