A light was visible in the garret,
feebly struggling through the damp atmosphere, for the night was raw and
overcast. ’
‘It’s no use you being superior,’ said Roding severely. The militia
were in already. His ideas about girls and women were of a sentimental and modest quality;
they were creatures, he thought, either too bad for a modern vocabulary, and then
frequently most undesirably desirable, or too pure and good for life. Her eyes filled as she thought of him, the image of his laughing countenance
coming into her mind, to be swiftly followed by a vision of the blood running
from his cut hand. She must speak to Jack. ‘How is this?
Proo-den-ss. She might even forgive him. I
suspect he has been at work upon those he has on. Ruth will
be a gold mine for a man of your peculiar bent. ”
“Dear me,” Anna laughed, “how unfortunate! What ought I to do? Should I be
forgiven, do you think, if I were to go and hold that skein of wool for the old
lady in the yellow cap?”
“Don’t speak of her irreverently,” Brendon said, in an awed whisper. ’
‘Merci,’ she sighed and, surrendering at last to his oft-proffered aid, allowed
her head to droop onto his chest. For her mother to betray her seemed
inevitable, but the betrayal seemed worse than her fate. Lucy grabbed his shirtsleeve, whispering on
tiptoe.
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