’ She bestowed a dazzling smile on Roding, who had reddened to the gills at these words. She made no answer, and for a time he debated some problems with himself. Each manuscript was like the other: the same lovely treatment of an unlovely subject. Again, he would ask a few questions, and Ruth would answer them. Since the accession of George the First to the throne in the preceding year, every effort had been made by the partisans of the Stuarts to shake the credit of the existing government, and to gain supporters to their cause. But then—Oh! Madam, there are moments—moments of darkness, which overshadow a whole existence—in the lives of the poor houseless wretches who traverse the streets, when reason is well-nigh benighted; when the horrible promptings of despair can, alone, be listened to; and when vice itself assumes the aspect of virtue. She is not in the least like the descriptions of her. It was painted in the early seventeenth century by a minor artist named DuPre.
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