" "My poor son!" groaned the widow, sinking backwards. Gosse! Dieu du ciel, but how did he get into the convent? She had perforce to obey his command, for speech was impossible. She uncrossed her legs and lowered herself, carefully and slowly, until she lay supine. It was maddening to be made to feel that he was in any way the inferior of this cool, self-possessed young woman, whose eyes seemed for a moment to scintillate with scorn. There was a gulf of eight years between her and the youngest of her brace of sisters—an impassable gulf inhabited chaotically by two noisy brothers. If only he had known it, sympathy was almost entirely with him. "Neither man nor woman shall apply that term to me. Niece and aunt regarded each other for a moment over their pockethandkerchiefs with watery but antagonistic eyes, each far too profoundly moved to see the absurdity of the position. Advancing to the middle of the chamber, he halted, drew himself up, and fixed his dark, expressive eyes, on Thames Darrell. " "That is what I wanted to know," said Ruth gravely.
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