What marriage really meant (aside from the idea of escape), Ruth had not the least conception, no more than a child. “Thousands! Ugh! And found it a worse slavery. “Really,” she said. For all her begging she had been given the choice to go into the nunnery and “learn how to read scrolls with the rest of God’s Spinsters” by her father, but had quickly lost interest when presented with the idea of bearing babies. " "He made you wear shoes and stockings?" "Always. He answered with the greatest assurance, that he knew nothing whatever of the matter—had seen no pocket-book, and no associate to give up. She opened and read it at once. Besides, it did not fit her well, which was why the loose wimple had slipped. " Ruth brushed her eyes with one hand and with the other signed for the spinster to stop. Reaction set in and she leapt at him, beating at his chest with her fists. " "Run along, then. There was every indication that she fled the island in company with a dissolute rogue. “They ought to have been lopped in the spring.
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