Dim possibilities that she would not seem to look at even to herself
gesticulated in the twilight background of her mind. This lifeless appearance was
heightened by the extreme sharpness of her features—especially the nose and
chin,—and by the emaciation of her limbs, which was painfully distinct through
her drapery. She could see that she was
now the exclusive object of the boy’s attention. Ruth's mind was fertile
soil; for a long time to come it would be something of a hothouse: green things
would spring up and blossom overnight. ’
‘Think Valade will come back here then?’
‘Melusine thinks so,’ Gerald said, pausing at the top of the stairs. So presently they got into a hansom together, and Ann Veronica sat back
feeling very luxurious and pleasant, and looked at the light and stir and misty
glitter of the street traffic from under slightly drooping eyelids, while Ramage
sat closer to her than he need have done, and glanced ever and again at her face,
and made to speak and said nothing. The steps, even the pavements, were invaded by little knots of
loungers driven outside by the unusual heat of the evening, most of them in
evening dress, or what passed for evening dress in Montague Street. They smelled
good, but they no longer smelled like food. He was fast rising to an
eminence that no one of his nefarious profession ever reached before him, nor, it
is to be hoped, will ever reach again.
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