And, by way of checking
his housekeeper's familiarity, he pointed significantly to the table. "What ho!" he cried slapping Smith, who had fallen asleep with the brandybottle in his grasp, upon the shoulder. A strange betrothal!—the primal idea of which was escape! The girl, intent upon
abrogating for ever all legal rights of the father in the daughter, of rendering
innocuous the thing she had now named the Terror: the boy, seeking selfcrucifixion in expiation of his transgression, changing a peccadillo into
damnation!
It was easy for Ruth to surrender to the idea, for she believed she was loved; and
in gratitude it was already her determination to give this boy her heart's blood,
drop by drop, if he wanted it. Of course, it really signified nothing in this
careless part of the world that she was travelling alone. "No—Sheppard?" rejoined Wild. "What is it?"
"Can't you see? Together, down there; you and I!… As my wife!
Both of us, never to be lonely again!… Will you marry me, Ruth?"
As many a wiser woman had done, Ruth mistook thrilling eagerness for love. "
Sir Rowland moved irresolutely towards the door, but recoiled before a sad
spectacle. "
"Come along, then. The
doleful procession at once assumed a festive character. “Are you going on again this
winter with that scientific work of yours? It’s an instance of heredity, I suppose. I’d rather starve!”
For a moment the conversation hung upon that declaration.
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