Any man
might have endeavoured to protect himself in this fashion, a man with no one to
care, with an unnameable terror at the thought (as if it mattered!) of being buried
in alien earth, far from the familiar places he loved. Beautiful is the girl of twelve,—who is neither
child nor woman, but something between both, something more exquisite than
either!
Such was the fairy creature presented to Thames Darrell, under the following
circumstances. One or
two of the tables were occupied by groups of fat frowzy women in flat caps, with
rings on their thumbs, and baskets by their sides; and no one who had listened
for a single moment to their coarse language and violent abuse of each other,
would require to be told they were fish-wives from Billingsgate. Can't I make you see?"
"But I'm telling you Ruth loves you. I have never wept since that day. Nothing
stronger than water has passed my lips for years. Her eyelids fluttered with recognition,
and she cried out softly. “Miss Pellissier is nothing to me
except a young lady for whom I have the most profound and respectful
admiration. Wood uttered something like an imprecation.
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