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Perhaps the Parisian atmosphere had affected him. Ruth shivered; she was cold. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with some man?” “What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad as to go off alone?” “After—after what had happened the night before?” “Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and there, sure enough, was yours. . I bear the marks of some of them about me still," he continued, taking off his wig, and laying bare a bald skull, covered with cicatrices and plates of silver. ’ Alderley glanced round the bedchamber. “An annuity—a sum of money paid to you yearly or quarterly through my solicitors, and which you can consider as a gift from your sister. "You have forgotten your knife, Mr. “But we satisfy one another. "So, you young fool, I have found you!" she said, harshly. "I am very happy to be of service to you. . She stood there limply and did not act to resist him. ” She spoke with a certain asperity. Ten years of military life had taught him caution, but only strengthened a fearless zest for diving into any promising adventure with unalloyed enjoyment.
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