”
The lights were lowered, and an attentive waiter hovered round Anna’s cloak. It was for ever. “It is like old times,” she said, “to hear these home truths. As the novel grew Ruth was astonished to see herself enter and dominate it:
sometimes as she actually was, with all her dreams reviewed—as if he had
caught her talking in her sleep. Satisfied with his scrutiny, he returned, despatched Abraham and Obadiah to the
northwest corner of the church, placed Quilt behind a buttress near the porch,
and sheltered himself behind one of the mighty elms. In another instant, the collision took place. Wood,
and however he might dissent from the latter proposition, he did not deem it
expedient to make any reply; and the orator proceeded with his harangue amid
the general applause of the assemblage. The general did what he might to hush it up, and paid
handsomely to manage it, I daresay. ‘That—that—why do you
speak of him?’
‘Because I feel you ought to know,’ Gerald said calmly, but rising and
watching her closely, ‘that all your trouble may be in vain. The G. ”
He threw open the door of the sitting-room and switched on the electric light. But this time she
wanted nothing for herself: she wanted something for Hoddy—success. He glanced at Ruth (who had stood with her back
to the wall, pinned there throughout the contest by terror and the knowledge of
her own helplessness), then at the bronze menace, and calculated correctly that
this particular adventure was finished. It was below
consciousness, elusive; so he sent out a call to his friend, defensively.
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