‘Oh, peste,’ she cried out in distressed tones. ”
There was a moment’s silence. "My name will only be remembered as that of a robber," he mused; "but it shall
be remembered as that of a bold one: and this night's achievement, if it does
nothing else, shall prevent me from being classed with the common herd of
depredators. We can be friends again. Having already expressed our
determination not to betray any confidences of this sort, which, however
interesting to the parties concerned, could not possibly be so to others, we shall
omit also the "love passages," and proceeding to such topics as may have general
interest, take up the discourse at the point when Thames Darrell expressed his
determination of starting for Manchester, as soon as Jack Sheppard's
examination had taken place. "Strange!" he continued, as if talking to
himself. ’
***
Mrs Chalkney, a long-time friend of the late Mrs Alderley, had been delighted to
oblige that lady’s son. “You know,” he went on, “this doesn’t seem to me to end anything. When he had finished he took up the wine list and ordered a
bottle of dry champagne. She was curious to know why
he had boarded a dingy train instead of hailing a cab or
his own private chauffeur like the others in expensive
suits were doing. Even if he were an old friend,
you couldn't afford to do it. They were
alike in one phase—loveless and lonely. To take Spring and Love out of her life, as if there were
no human instincts to tell Ruth what was being denied her! And what must have
been the man's thought as he came upon Ruth wearing a gown of her mother's?
—a fair picture of the mother in the primrose days? Not a flicker of an eyelash;
steel and granite outwardly.
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