"Fool!" he cried, "do you think I wouldn't have secured you before this if I hadn't
some motive for my forbearance?"
"And that motive is fear," replied Jack contemptuously. ”
Miss Stanley turned to her. And—the idea of committees, of
hustings, of agenda-papers!”
“I don’t see why the responsibility of beauty should all be shifted on to the
women,” said Ann Veronica, suddenly remembering a part of Miss Miniver’s
discourse. Do
so; and I am yours as heretofore. Little by little the pool cleared, the whims vanished: so that both Ruth and the
doctor, by the middle of the third week, began to accept Spurlock's actions as
normal, whereas there was still a mote or two which declined to settle, still a
kink in the gray matter that refused to straighten out. As he hesitated, unable to make up his mind what to do for the
best, a heavy rumbling on the cobbles penetrated his absorption. "Dreamed!" echoed the knight, with a ghastly smile. She had
once reconciled in her mind that she was happy as long as
she had him. She had removed her hat and utterly disarranged her already unruly
black locks by running agitated fingers through them. ”
“You know all?”
“Your sister has told me. He tried not to think—of Ruth with her mother's locket, of her misguided father,
taking his lonely way to sea. But he may remain with
you if he pleases: I sha'n't hinder him.
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