Wood," said she, in the deep, hoarse accents of
consumption; "and may God Almighty bless and reward you for your kindness!
You were always the best of masters to my poor husband; and now you've
proved the best of friends to his widow and orphan boy. Both had dropped the rather elaborate politeness of the
dining-room, and in their faces an impartial observer would have discovered
little lines of obstinate wilfulness in common; a certain hardness—sharp, indeed,
in the father and softly rounded in the daughter—but hardness nevertheless, that
made every compromise a bargain and every charity a discount. It is true that I
do not love Ruth; but I swear to you, before the God of my fathers, that she shall
never know it!"
"I'll be getting along. Her eyes were soft and grave, and there was the faintest
of smiles upon her resolute lips. Fancying they were alone, Sir Rowland threw aside his cloak, and produced a
heavy bag of money, which he flung upon the table; and, when Wild had feasted
his greedy eyes sufficiently upon its golden contents, he handed him a pocketbook filled with notes. Still, she
knew instinctively that all of Sidney Carton's life had not been put upon the
printed page. “Good-bye, John,” she said simply. The other individual, who was a
little in advance, was concealed from the stranger's view. “That sounds quite absurd,” she answered.
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