How little he
knew about Ruth—the background from which she had sprung! He knew that
her father was a missioner, that her mother was dead, that she had been born on
this island, and that, at the time of his collapse, she had been on the way to an
aunt in the States. His absence was thought by the charitable to be from grief. ’
Melusine blinked at this competence. ’
A laugh escaped her. ”
Sir John’s head bent lower and lower. "
"And were I in yours," rejoined the woollen-draper, "I should be doubly
apprehensive, because he's a professed friend. “To tell you the truth, it has seemed just lately as
though we were becoming in some measure estranged. "
Ruth walked to the companion. She put down the sketch-books and apparatus she had brought with
her, pulled out her stool, and sat down. "
"It's light. One’s got to be a better man than one’s
father, or what is the good of successive generations? Life is rebellion, or
nothing.
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