‘It is imbecile that you are. He
would take her with great force. She felt a semi-sharp object being gently impressed
into her back. He roused curiosities. ”
The doctor looked at her thoughtfully. 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. The
chair was torture. I wonder——”
He turned slowly round. She knew, or guessed his mission too,
for more than once their eyes met, and she laughed mockingly at him. But what if she were to marry? He glanced towards
the elderly dame and found her watching him, the dimple very much in
evidence.
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