"That gown is getting shabby. Sheppard's attention; and no sooner did
she in some degree recover from the shock occasioned by the sight of her son's
debased condition, than, regardless of any other consideration except his instant
removal from the contaminating society by which he was surrounded, and utterly
forgetting the more cautious plan she meant to have adopted, she rushed into the
room, and summoned him to follow her. He took into his soul some of the father's misery, some of the daughter's, to
mingle with his own. ’
Both Valade and the granddaughter gazed at him blankly. I said I hadn’t been at the Royal Society soiree for four years,
and got him to tell me about some of the fresh Mendelian work. It was a curious sight to see how this extraordinary woman, who, it has been
said, was not less remarkable for the extreme delicacy of her features, and the
faultless symmetry of her figure, than for her wonderful strength and agility,
conducted herself in the present encounter; with what dexterity she parried every
blow aimed against her by her adversary, whose head and face, already marked
by various ruddy streams, showed how successfully her own hits had been made;
—how she drew him hither and thither, now leading him on, now driving him
suddenly back; harassing and exhausting him in every possible way, and making
it apparent that she could at any moment put an end to the fight, and only
delayed the finishing stroke to make his punishment the more severe. "
Gently she thrust Ruth aside. Sheppard. He felt her warm
breath upon his cheek, the perfume of her hair as she leaned over him.
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