She had been in the
drawing-room for a few minutes before the gong had sounded, and had chattered
gaily to every one. ‘Jarvis Remenham was your
mother’s father. Here was the same Ruth who had left him a few minutes
since: the same outwardly; and yet…!
On the ninth day Spurlock was up and about; that is, he was strong enough to
walk alone, from the companion to his chair, to lean upon the rail when the chair
grew irksome, to join Ruth and his employer at lunch and dinner: strong enough
to argue about books, music, paintings. Was this the result of some strange
experiment? It was the person of Annabel Pellissier—the soul of a very different
order of being. Poor
girl! she was beautiful once; so beautiful as to make me, who care little for the
allurements of women, fancy myself enamoured of her. Startled by the cry, as may be
supposed, the attention of the whole congregation was drawn towards the quarter
whence it proceeded. Consent to become my wife, and do not compel me to have
recourse to violence to effect my purpose, and I will spare your son. ” The two congregated
instantly. Told you how it would be. "My son! my dear, dear son!" returned Mrs. "
"You'll take the consequences, then?"
"Willingly. Later, she
understood his reasons; and it had now become habit. ToC
The household of the worthy carpenter, it may be conceived, was thrown into the
utmost confusion and distress by the unaccountable disappearance of the two
boys. "You are my prisoner, Jack. The latter were
saved; but of the former nothing but the blackened stone walls were found
standing on the morrow.
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