It now came to him with an added thrill how well she had told her story; simply and directly, no skipping, no wandering hither and yon: from the first hour she could remember, to the night she had fled in the proa, a clear sustained narrative. Old farmhouses loomed as they whizzed by, left behind in the gray like mourners. I could not have committed this robbery. “Miss Pellissier,” he said, “I came here this afternoon hoping particularly to see you for a few moments before you signed that contract. Wild. There was a gentle rustling of skirts. If you knew anything about Canton ware, you were, as like as not, sorely tempted to stuff a teacup into your pocket. It seemed an emblem of the ruin he had caused. He drew her to him and tipped her chin towards him. I suppose if one were to love some one, one would feel doubtful. She’ll have to wait for dinner,” he said, uncomfortably. 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 sat in deep thought for a moment or two, and then nodding briskly, dipped the pen in the ink again and began to write. ‘As to Gérard, I do not know why he does this. If I'd not gone mad, they would have hanged me.
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