In fact, the whole face had undergone a transformation. ’ ‘Ah, but there’s the little matter of your presence here,’ said Gerald on a note of apology. "I am surprised we have received no summons for attendance to-day," he remarked; "perhaps the other robber may be secured. Capes bore a face of infinite perplexity. His eyes caught at hers with passionate inquiries. 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. Then, in a few years, he and Ruth might fare forth in comfort and security. ‘He just came. Now the sense of beauty was spreading to a multitude of hitherto unsuspected aspects of the world about her. Was it that the struggle of things to survive produced as a sort of necessary byproduct these intense preferences and appreciations, or was it that some mystical outer thing, some great force, drove life beautyward, even in spite of expediency, regardless of survival value and all the manifest discretions of life? She went to Capes with that riddle and put it to him very carefully and clearly, and he talked well—he always talked at some length when she took a difficulty to him—and sent her to a various literature upon the markings of butterflies, the incomprehensible elaboration and splendor of birds of Paradise and hummingbirds’ plumes, the patterning of tigers, and a leopard’s spots. But a far greater affliction was in store for her. “Look here! Aren’t you going a little too far? This—this is degradation—making a fuss with sleeves. ’ ‘But, sister, I—’ ‘Get along!’ Melusine gave Jack a smile as he cast a worried look at her, and nodded dismissal. But from the rest—you saved me. We had no idea.
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