But a middle-aged man like Ramage ought to know better than to draw out a girl, the daughter of a friend and neighbor. “You have been very kind to me,” she said. The way—the way we are led on! We are taught to believe we are free in the world, to think we are queens. But she veiled her feelings. Now it is—’ ‘What are you doing still here, missie, that’s what I’d like to know?’ demanded the man Trodger, sticking to his guns. The letter began: “MY DEAREST GIRL,—I cannot let you do this foolish thing—” She crumpled notes and letter together in her hand, and then with a passionate gesture flung them into the fire. EPOCH THE FIRST, 1703. He growled in his throat and, thrusting his coat open, revealed his own buckled sword-belt. Everybody, he felt, must be listening behind their papers. To-night the subtle suggestiveness of those few daring lines, fascinating in their very simplicity, the head thrown back, the half-closed eyes—the inner meaning of the great artist seemed to come to him with a rush. His figure was slight, but well-built; and, in stature he did not exceed five feet four.
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