. He helped himself to a beer, then a vodka and tonic, then two rum and Cokes. " Jack was about to comply with the request, when an unlooked-for interruption occurred. ” Anna was silent. " Spurlock obeyed mechanically. A smile trembled at the corners of her mouth as she recalled Gerald’s ridiculous upbraiding of his own reflection in the mirror. “Lucy, that’s horrible. But a middle-aged man like Ramage ought to know better than to draw out a girl, the daughter of a friend and neighbor. ” “I’ll pay you if I have to work at shirt-making at threepence an hour. Do you recall the night she showed you the face in the locket? Do you remember how she said—'If only my mother had lived'? Did you ever see anything more tender or beautiful?" "I remember. 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. Seconded by his strength and temper, his skill rendered him invincible and he is reputed never to have lost a battle.
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