’ With an air of real interest, he asked, ‘I suppose you did not dig a tunnel or
fly in by balloon?’
The lady gazed at him blankly. It seemed to show a want of affection, to be a deliberate and unmerited
disregard, to justify the reprisal of being hurt. ‘In the bookroom, sir,’ answered the man, his eyes round as they took in the
furious beauty at the visitor’s side. Then, presto! What a dreary lot they are when the revellers lay aside
the motley!
Ruth had come from a far South Sea isle. They are blinded to all fine and subtle things
—they look at life with bloodshot eyes and dilated nostrils. The haste to send her upon her way now had but one interpretation—the
recognition of his own immediate danger, the fear that if this tender association
continued, he would end in offering her a calamity quite as impossible as that
which had happened—the love of a man who was in all probability older than
her father! The hurt was no less intensive because it was so ridiculous.
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