He was a civil servant of some
standing, and after a previous conversation upon aesthetics of a sententious,
nebulous, and sympathetic character, he had sent her a small volume, which he
described as the fruits of his leisure and which was as a matter of fact rather
carefully finished verse. But all these hours, trying to teach the child wariness toward life,
and the moment his back was turned, this!
He was, perhaps, still dazed by the inner revelation—his own interest in Ruth. One swift glance about the room, and a sensation of grim
foreboding swept through him. ” He said flaccidly. ‘Oh, peste,’ she cried out in distressed tones. But it was now too late to turn
back, and, nerving himself for the shock he expected to encounter, he ventured
after his conductor. Notwithstanding her emaciation, her features still retained something of a
pleasing expression, and might have been termed beautiful, had it not been for
that repulsive freshness of lip denoting the habitual dram-drinker; a freshness in
her case rendered the more shocking from the almost livid hue of the rest of her
complexion. Most of them didn’t, anyhow. In
the obscurity in which it was now seen, it looked like a prison, and, indeed, it
was Jonathan's fancy to make it resemble one as much as possible. On Friday Michelle found Lucy while waiting in line
by the soda machine.
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