"Strange!" he continued, as if talking to
himself. This
girl whom he had met by chance and befriended had done both. At this juncture, a cry burst from the child, who, nearly smothered by the weight
imposed upon him, only recovered the use of his lungs as Wood altered the
position of the bundle. He did not want Ruth to see his own stricken
countenance; nor did he care to see hers, ravaged by tears. All the fury had left her, swamped by an inexplicable flood of
warmth. “The truth!” It was a moment of awkwardness between the two sisters
—a moment, too, charged with its own psychological interest, for there were
secrets between them which for many months had made their intercourse a
constrained and difficult thing. ’
‘Sport!’ grumbled her betrothed, but he accompanied them across the ballroom
all the same. She was standing there, smiling at the
audience as at her friends. Always I have said I will take
care of myself, and I have done so. Papillon would have broken him down; anything tender
would have sapped his will; and like as not he would have left the stool and
rushed into the night. She was
sorry for his liking her too much for his own good, but her need was too
desperate to cavil at turning it to useful account. "My lips would belie my heart were I to
refuse you. We don’t want things to happen. Even there a woman never gets a fair chance. Then her white teeth gleamed, and her excuse for remaining any longer
before that little marble table was gone.
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