After he was gone in the morning, Ruth would steal into the study and hurriedly read what he had written the previous night. “No, Lucy, it isn’t fine and I am sorry. “You mean to tell me” he said, “that you have a lover? While I have been keeping you! Yes—keeping you!” This view of life he hurled at her as if it were an offensive missile. They became aware of the waitress standing over them with book and pencil ready for their bill. The garrets were said to be tenanted by coiners, and artists employed in altering watches and jewelry; the cellars to be used as a magazine for stolen goods. ’ For a moment Gerald said nothing at all. He drew an awed breath. Divers plans and figures were chalked upon the walls; and the spaces between them were filled up with an almanack for the year; a godly ballad, adorned with a rude wood-cut, purporting to be "The History of Chaste Susannah;" an old print of the Seven Golden Candlesticks; an abstract of the various Acts of Parliament against drinking, swearing, and all manner of profaneness; and a view of the interior of Doctor Daniel Burgess's Presbyterian meeting-house in Russell Court, with portraits of the reverend gentleman and the principal members of his flock. What marriage really meant (aside from the idea of escape), Ruth had not the least conception, no more than a child. Jonathan Wild?" asked the attendant, in great trepidation. There would be no mercy in this man.
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