Ennison paused
by the little gate. He, next, tried to clamber up the flying buttresses and soffits of
the pier, in the hope of reaching some of the windows and other apertures with
which, as a man-of-war is studded with port-holes, the sides of the bridge were
pierced. She searched for it for many days that stretched
into weeks before she gave up. Ruth was inflammable; she would always be flaring up swiftly, in pity, in
tenderness, in anger; she would always be answering impulses, without seeking
to weigh or to analyse them. She followed Oxford Street into Holborn, and then she inquired for Chancery
Lane. "So, you young fool, I have found you!" she said, harshly. “Perhaps, as I’ve only just arrived,” she remarked, “I might be forgiven if I do
not change my skirt. Moving swiftly to the end of the corridor, he pushed
open a door at random and entered a large room, which looked to have been a
saloon, judging from the faded gilt and crimson wall-paper, a mirror above the
fireplace which was surrounded by an ornate gilded frame, now sadly tarnished,
and a worn Chippendale sofa with striped upholstery and tasselled cushions. "Of course, therefore," pursued Jonathan, "you are acquainted with all the
leaders of the proposed insurrection,—nay, must be in correspondence with
them. “I’ll get a towel. And, for a man who'll never see sixty again, he's in
excellent preservation, I assure you. “I think,” she said, “that I would rather not have anything to say about that man. Have you ever heard the name of Meysey Hill?”
“Meysey Hill?” He repeated it after her, and she knew at once from his tone and
his quick glance into her face that the name possessed some significance for him.
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