" "I could make a fine sketch of him now," whispered Hogarth to Gay. 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. She could have traded it for gold nuggets and lived like a queen for a few weeks, but she did not. “Why shouldn’t one face the facts of one’s self?” She stood up. “Men are curious animals, with a trick of falling in love readily with girls about your age. I want to be a human being; I want to learn about things and know about things, and not to be protected as something too precious for life, cooped up in one narrow little corner. If he died, here in this hotel, who would care? Or if she died, who would care? A queer desire blossomed in her heart: to go to him, urge him to see the folly of trying to forget. “Anna,” he said, “you make it all indescribably hard for me. A day will come when you will thank me. ‘How do you do? I am so happy to meet you. The darkness prevented the carpenter from discerning the features or figure of the stranger; and the ceaseless din precluded the possibility of holding any communication by words with him. " "You shall be treated according to your deserts, then," said Jonathan, maliciously. They were sounding more and more like Civic every day. Even Ah Cum had resumed his Oriental shell of reserve.
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