The idea of Ruth as a talisman against misfortune—which he now recognized as a sick man's idea— faded as his appreciation of the absurd reasserted itself. “Idiotic, isn’t it?” “Absolutely,” she agreed coldly. ” She stopped short. "Mind, I, Rykhart Van Galgebrok predict it. Wood will be intercepted. He appeared to thunder dire happenings if she did not obey him without further ado. ‘And what is it you’re to rescue her from, I should like to know. She’d have thrown this thing if you hadn’t stopped her. Sepulchre's bell is for ever ringing in my ears—oh!" "If that's the case," observed Wood, "I'm surprised you should like to have such a frightful picture constantly in view as that over the chimney-piece. Well, they’d got to the pheasants, and in a little while he would smoke. "Put down your burthen, monster!" shouted Wood, pointing an immense blunderbuss at him. White looked mysteriously about the room as though to be sure that no one was listening. She appeared not to have realised the implications of her outburst, but clung a little to Gerald’s hands which had taken hers in a comforting clasp. He perceived, however, that both the novels he read and the world he lived in discountenanced these assumptions. Having disposed of his steed and swallowed a glass of brandy, without taking any other refreshment, he threw himself on a couch, where he sank at once into a heavy slumber.
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