“Very,” and cracked a walnut appreciatively. He rose at once to his feet and turned a white face
upon her. 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. ‘Well, if that’s what the good Lord wants, then you’ll just have to accept it. . Of course, it really signified nothing in this
careless part of the world that she was travelling alone. She
had already realized that this instructress was hopelessly wrong and foggy—it is
the test of the good comparative anatomist—upon the skull. Two large wards were situated in the Gate; one of which, the Stone Ward,
appropriated to the master debtors, looked towards Holborn; the other called the
Stone Hall, from a huge stone standing in the middle of it, upon which the irons
of criminals under sentence of death were knocked off previously to their being
taken to the place of execution, faced Newgate Street.
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