" This frankness rather subdued Spurlock. '—'No fear o' that,' thought I. Single pearls— Lord knows where they come from!—are always turning up, some of them of fine lustre; but I never set eyes on them. And his scarlet coat had nothing to do with it, as Hilary was fond of recounting, for he had been in civilian clothes when they met, as he was tonight. As soon as he was gone, the two women divested themselves of their hoods and cloaks, and threw them, as if inadvertently, into the farthest part of the angle in the wall. I might utter a million, and still I doubt if I could make you understand. Let me put the main question to you now that I could not put the other afternoon. Nothing would induce me to marry you, or any man at present. K-kimble, sir,’ stammered the lad. A strange betrothal!—the primal idea of which was escape! The girl, intent upon abrogating for ever all legal rights of the father in the daughter, of rendering innocuous the thing she had now named the Terror: the boy, seeking selfcrucifixion in expiation of his transgression, changing a peccadillo into damnation! It was easy for Ruth to surrender to the idea, for she believed she was loved; and in gratitude it was already her determination to give this boy her heart's blood, drop by drop, if he wanted it. Day after day—five, to be exact—she had returned to Morgan's; and each time the man would understand what had drawn her, and with a kindly smile would sit down at the piano and play. Unless there was some real metal in the young fool, some hidden strength with which to breast the current, Ruth would become a millstone around his neck and soon he would become to her an object of pity and contempt. The effort to maintain her self-control was almost superhuman.
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