For a time she brooded on the ideals and
suggestions of the Socialists, on the vague intimations of an Endowment of
Motherhood, of a complete relaxation of that intense individual dependence for
women which is woven into the existing social order. She turned the gas up in her little sitting-room, and sank
wearily into an easy chair. At the farther end of the Lodge, the
floor was raised to the height of a couple of steps; whence the whole place, with
the exception of the remotest corner of the angle before-mentioned, could be
commanded at a single glance. She was interested by the swearing of the witnesses. The Scot understood that, gently and indirectly, Ruth
was asking her husband a question, opening a door if he cared to enter. For
me that is all over and done with. "There is another mystery I would have solved," said Trenchard, addressing
Wild; "you have told me much, but not enough. He was a London man of business, spending a small legacy in Paris. The size and grandeur of the edifice, indeed, drew down the
ridicule of several of the wits of the age: by one of whom—the facetious Tom
Brown—it was said, "Bedlam is a pleasant place, and abounds with amusements;
—the first of which is the building, so stately a fabric for persons wholly
insensible of the beauty and use of it: the outside being a perfect mockery of the
inside, and admitting of two amusing queries,—Whether the persons that
ordered the building of it, or those that inhabit it, were the maddest? and,
whether the name and thing be not as disagreeable as harp and harrow. Well, I don't think they'll any of 'em nab him, that's one comfort. Loving was better than that.
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