Love … to take her in his arms and to comfort her: and then to add to her cup of
bitterness the knowledge that her husband was a thief! For himself he did not
care; God could continue to grind and pulverize him; but to add another grain to
the evil he had already wrought upon Ruth was unthinkable. Those whom he retained about his person, or placed in offices of trust, were for
the most part convicted felons, who, having returned from transportation before
their term had expired, constituted, in his opinion, the safest agents, inasmuch as
they could neither be legal evidences against him, nor withhold any portion of
the spoil of which he chose to deprive them. "
"Make good your assertions," cried Trenchard, furiously, "or——"
"To the proof," interrupted the stranger, calmly. The young rascal had learnt from some of the women-servants that Lady
Trafford was from home, and was in the very act of making off when I got down
stairs.
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