"You lie, hussy!" replied Jonathan, rudely pushing her aside, as she vainly
endeavoured to oppose his entrance into the room; "she is here. I was
afraid that I might be called upon as a witness. The city presented a terrible picture of devastation. ]
CHAPTER VIII
Slowly Ruth entered her own room. They sat
down at the dining room table which seemed empty and
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huge in the stark, white-walled room. Jonathan kept his keen eye fixed upon him, as he addressed himself for a
moment to the Hollander. All this while he was arranging the medicines on the stand and jotting down his
instructions on a chart sheet. In a moment or two, Madame Valade recovered her sangfroid. They
were properly brought up, and sat still and straight, and took the luck fate
brought them as gentlewomen should. Oh! that I should live to be father-in-law to a peer of France! What
would my poor wife say to it, if she could come to life again? Oh, Thames!—my
lord marquis, I mean—you have made me the happiest—the proudest of
mankind.
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