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Chapter XV
A MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE
Anna looked about her admiringly. And yet, as she rose
slowly to her feet and stood looking at him with outstretched hands, a strange
mixture of expressions shining in her wonderful eyes, he realized in some
measure the strength of her determination, felt the utter impotence of anything
which he could say to her. Things happen to women—proper women—and all they have to do is to
take them well. I
have gone without dinner for three nights, and—come in. They ascended by a lift
to one of the upper floors, passed through a long ward, and finally came to a bed
in the extreme corner, round which a screen had been arranged. She rambles continually about Jack, and her husband, and that wretch
Jonathan, to whom, as far as can be gathered from her wild ravings, she
attributes all her misery. . She turned the gas up in her little sitting-room, and sank
wearily into an easy chair. ”
She found it difficult to begin thinking, and indeed she was anything but clear
what it was she had to think about. "
"It is too late," returned Jack, sullenly; "I can't be honest if I would. He had put himself before the threshold of damnation; for Ruth was
now a vestal in the temple. On Sunday, he was conveyed to the chapel, through which he had passed on the
occasion of his great escape, and once more took his seat in the Condemned
Pew. No wonder we are anxious that nothing should happen to make him
change his mind. Priests and princes sought his
knowledge of languages and philosophy and wantonly
tried to throw themselves into his bed. ”
The conversation hung.
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