’
Baring his teeth in a smile of triumph that was every bit an animal snarl, and
leaping up onto the seat of the pew he was in, he jumped hazardously to the next. Does this not disturb you?”
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“Of course it disturbs me. "You'll not be offended, I hope," returned Wood, drily, "if I say that your voice,
your manner, and, above all, your very extraordinary way of laughing, put me
strangely in mind of one of the 'droll dogs,' (as you term them,) who helped to
perpetrate the outrage I've just described. She's not for
pleasure, but for work. You’re of age—
you’re of age. "
Ruth laughed. It’s the poor dears who do, who
know they will, know they can’t keep it up, who need to clutch at way-side
flowers. And I’d do it again for you if needs be. “Don’t you know, child, that this is
torture for me? What in God’s name more can you have to tell me?”
Her face had become almost like a marble image. Much has been advanced by modern writers respecting the demoralising effect
of prison society; and it has been asserted, that a youth once confined in
Newgate, is certain to come out a confirmed thief. Ennison slightly——”
There was a dead silence in the little room. He jumped back, wrenching the sword away.
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