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. There was a very white-faced youngster of eighteen who brushed back his hair exactly in Russell’s manner, and was disposed to be uncomfortably silent when he was near her, and to whom she felt it was only Christian kindness to be consistently pleasant; and a lax young man of five-and-twenty in navy blue, who mingled Marx and Bebel with the more orthodox gods of the biological pantheon. ‘Dieu du ciel, for what do you take me?’ ‘I don’t know,’ he threw at her. " "Bring him here,—let me see him—let me embrace him—let me be assured that he is safe, and I am yours. The girl regarded him with the face of a Sphinx. Afterward he stole out of the room with the bloodstained sheet to boast her virginity to his brothers and father, which only truly mattered because she was beautiful, her mother had said. “Most of it is ugly and frowsy,” she declared, “but it isn’t worth talking about. It tore her apart. She had changed into dungarees herself and kept her hair as it was. ” “But you,” she exclaimed, “you are not coming. I looked upon you from the first as the most promising of my pupils. ” “Was he divorced, do you mean?” “No, but he got himself mixed up in a divorce case. “I wish you didn’t. Had he been sick in the mind when he had done this damnable thing? It did not seem possible, for he could recall clearly all he had said and done; there were no blank spaces to give him one straw of excuse.
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