Her lover, Darrell, has embarked upon the Thames, where, if
he's not capsized by the squall, (for it's blowing like the devil,) he stands a good
chance of getting his throat cut by his pursuers—ha! ha! I tracked 'em to the
banks of the river, and should have followed to see it out, if the watermen hadn't
refused to take me. . ’
A sudden frown sprang to the fellow’s face. ”
With a murmured word of excuse she glided away, and Courtlaw, who had come
with a mission which seemed to him to be one of life or death, was left to listen
to the latest art jargon from Chelsea. The
winters were bitter here, they could have just as easily
been frozen off. . She had come across the
wicked South Seas which were still infested with cannibals; she had seen
drunkenness and called men beachcombers; who was this moment as innocent as
a babe, and in the next uttered some bitter wisdom it had taken a thousand years
of philosophy to evolve. "
So Ruth heard about the poets; she became tolerably familiar with the exploits of
that engaging ruffian Cellini; she heard of the pathetic deafness of Beethoven;
she was thrilled, saddened, exhilarated; and on the evening of the twelfth day she
made bold to enter the talk. He was full of fabulous stories, not just
tales of his own past in Rome but wonderful fables from
the mysterious Orient and the ancient Greeks, old jokes
and yarns that only he remembered. ‘Sit down, won’t you?’ He crossed
back to Roding and said low-voiced.
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