" The spinsters had no counter-philosophy to offer; so they turned to Ruth, who had singularly and unconsciously invested herself with glamour, the glamour of adventure, which the old maids did not recognize as such because they were only tourists. " "Pshaw!" said Wild. A victim of one of those mental typhoons that scatter irretrievably the barriers of instinct and breeding; and he had gone on the rocks all in a moment. I have been used to living in apartments in Paris, but I suppose the system is different here. . His perseverance was amply rewarded. " Nor was this all. Then the distant relationship to Miss Stanley gave them a slight but pleasant sense of proprietorship in the girl. In any event, I brought her to the convent and we had her locked up separately, and told ’em both they’d be taken into custody as soon as Valade was fit to go. And Teddy declared himself ready to go to the ends of the earth for her, and carry her luggage all the way. She led him up the long hall solemnly. "If the best nag ever foaled were to throw me in this unlucky spot, I'd blow his brains out. Men are always doing it, and if you set up to be a man—” “No, it’s absolutely out of the question, Mr. “Cheveney wouldn’t have anything to say about it, as it happens,” he remarked, a little grimly. Boys, at the time of which we write, were attired like men of their own day, or certain charity-children of ours; and the stripling in question was dressed in black plush breeches, and a gray drugget waistcoat, with immoderately long pockets, both of which were evidently the cast-off clothes of some one considerably his senior.
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