But I was portentous, I can assure you. But tell me one
thing I don’t understand—tell me one thing: How can you help it by coming
down into the battle and the mire? That’s the thing that concerns me. There was
still in his heart that fierce anger which demands physical expression; but he had
to consider Ruth in all phases. I’d only get a pack of lies in reply. Jonathan, in all probability, knows nothing of these packets; and their production
may serve to intimidate him. "
"But why didn't you oppose him?"
"I had to let him have his way, else he might not have returned safely. “I have come to tell you this. He hesitated for a moment and
then he followed her. "Don't disturb yourself," said his follower, motioning him to keep still; "it's all
right. All
the rest of his existence was subordinate to this pursuit; he lived for it, worked
for it, kept himself in training for it. I’m in a mess—a
nasty mess! a filthy mess! Oh, no end of a mess!
“Do you hear, Ann Veronica?—you’re in a nasty, filthy, unforgivable mess!
“Haven’t I just made a silly mess of things?
“Forty pounds! I haven’t got twenty!”
She got up, stamped with her foot, and then, suddenly remembering the lodger
below, sat down and wrenched off her boots. Here was an experienced man of the
world, her friend, who evidently took a great interest in this supreme topic and
was willing to give her the benefit of his experiences! Why should not she be at
her ease with him? Why should not she know things? It is hard enough anyhow
for a human being to learn, she decided, but it is a dozen times more difficult
than it need be because of all this locking of the lips and thoughts. .
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