Here was the same Ruth who had left him a few minutes since: the same outwardly; and yet…! On the ninth day Spurlock was up and about; that is, he was strong enough to walk alone, from the companion to his chair, to lean upon the rail when the chair grew irksome, to join Ruth and his employer at lunch and dinner: strong enough to argue about books, music, paintings. It reminded Ann Veronica of having a tooth stopped. The fire—if there was any in him—never made headway against this insistant demand to know the significance of these manifold inward agitations. Small wonder she had learned to be self-reliant. —'I see how it'll be,' observed Alsatia, 'everybody'll pay his debts, and only think of such a state of things as that. On that night, I surrendered myself to Jonathan Wild, and became— what I am. Wild, he asserted, had robbed him of a large sum of money, and till it was restored he would never plead. She tried for her usual confident tone, but only succeeded in sounding gruff, even to her own ears.
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