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think if we just defy the friends we have and go out into the world everything
will become easy and splendid. 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. "
"Zounds!" exclaimed Quilt, "did you kill him?"
"Not quite," replied Terence, laughing; "but I brought him to his senses. “She must look forward to Italy. “It is very nice of you to come, but I do not
think for the present, at any rate, I could give him any other answer. You know they say, as, indeed, I have just quoted already, that
all bad poetry is written in a state of emotion, but I have no doubt that this is true
of bad offers of marriage. ’
‘A pretty tale. Her features were still slightly
marked by the disorder alluded to in the description of her as a child,—but that
was the only drawback to her beauty. ”
“I do want to tell you things, nevertheless. ” He stroked
her hand gently. He was leaning against a window
frame, his hat in his hand. The sunshine broke across each shoulder, one lance
striking the yellow face of a Chinaman, queueless and dressed in European
clothes, the other lance falling squarely upon the face of the man he had
journeyed thirteen thousand miles to find.
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