Treading with noiseless step over the soft mould, they
soon reached the building. Mr. Wood's dwelling,—a plain, substantial, commodious farm-house. "Good-bye!"
For a moment Ruth was tempted to fling herself against the withered bosom; but
long since she had learned repression. Jackson had
one of the ugliest countenances imaginable, he had a very fine set of teeth. Then as she drew nearer paint showed upon her face,
and a harsh purpose behind the quiet expression of her open countenance, and a
sort of unreality in her splendor betrayed itself for which Ann Veronica could not
recall the right word—a word, half understood, that lurked and hid in her mind,
the word “meretricious. “Don’t!” she begged. What has been the matter?”
“Toothache,” he answered laconically. ”
She stirred gently in her chair. ‘I may have been only a secretary, but
times are changing. "
"What a strange history is mine!" said Thames.
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