" "Well, then," returned the ruffian, "to put you out o' suspense, as the topsman remarked to poor Tom Sheppard, afore he turned him off, I'm come to make you an honourable proposal o' marriage. ’ ‘But it was not your fault,’ protested Gosse, shocked. They had been so considerate of the earth they had touched that they barely left a footprint. Capes looked at one and not over one, spoke to one, treated one as a visible concrete fact. " "Mr. A quick flush stained her cheeks. " "Indeed!" rejoined Sir Rowland, haughtily; "perhaps, you will refresh my memory as to the time, and place. She produced a handkerchief, and with one sweep of this and a simultaneous gulp had abolished her fit of weeping. It was a moment or two before Gerald realised that he could feel the fluttering of her pulse beneath the light touch he had on her wrist, and that her fingers were trembling in his. 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. The cultivated indifference, which was part of the armour of his little world fell away from him.
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