But they’ve just been to see General Charvill. CHAPTER V
At dinner the spinsters invited Ruth to sit at their table, an invitation she
accepted gratefully. At ninethirty he climbed into the chair and signified to Ah Cum that he was ready. "
"While I look as if I had stepped out of the family album?"
He frowned perplexedly. I’d take it—
forgive me if I seem a little urgent—as a sort of proof of friendliness. ’
He did as she bid him, and was very soon rewarded by the discovery of an
oval miniature, encased in gold. “Well?”
“I don’t care a rap for all these things. For the
young, immortality must seem promising, even
wonderful! The grass is always greener on the other
side. ”
The three men, who had arrived within a minute or two of one another, received
her little speech in dead silence. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the
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intention, doubtless, was to use you as far as he found necessary, and then to sell
you. ”
“If she is,” he answered, “I am convinced that there are circumstances in
connexion with that marriage which would make a divorce easy. ’
‘Woof!’ Sergeant Trodger’s eyes fairly popped out of his head, and he seized
his prisoner’s arm again. ’
Hilary eyed him. ‘I did not think so.
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