To have sprung this upon them to-night would have been worth a thousand pounds. ” Annabel, who was looking very well, and who was most becomingly dressed, moved to a seat from which she could command a view of the road outside. ’ He became aware of his friend’s face before him. " He drew down the lamp and blew it out, and followed her into the night, more lovely than he had ever imagined night to be. She was sore and overstrung, and it was intolerable to her that he should stand within three yards of her unsuspectingly, with an incalculably vast power over her happiness. Here was an experienced man of the world, her friend, who evidently took a great interest in this supreme topic and was willing to give her the benefit of his experiences! Why should not she be at her ease with him? Why should not she know things? It is hard enough anyhow for a human being to learn, she decided, but it is a dozen times more difficult than it need be because of all this locking of the lips and thoughts. " The woollen-draper's application to the bell was answered by a very pretty young woman, with dark Jewish features, roguish black eyes, sleek glossy hair, a trim waist, and a remarkably neat figure: the very model, in short, of a bachelor's housekeeper. Then the inner door opened abruptly. ‘So now we come to it. How little he knew about Ruth—the background from which she had sprung! He knew that her father was a missioner, that her mother was dead, that she had been born on this island, and that, at the time of his collapse, she had been on the way to an aunt in the States. Wild, Captain?" remonstrated the other, in a deferential tone. This was not the sort of confession which he had been expecting. She explained she was expecting an important interview, and asked that her visitor should be duly shown in.
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