She went past three keenly observant and ostentatiously preoccupied waiters down the thickcarpeted staircase and out of the Hotel Rococo, that remarkable laboratory of relationships, past a tall porter in blue and crimson, into a cool, clear night. Away off in the fields the bluesmocked peasants bent still at their toil. " "Ha!" exclaimed Jack, drawing in his breath, and leaning forward with intense curiosity. I was resolved to see you. “But why, Lucy? Who is it 145 that you are trying to hide from? John?” Lucy closed her eyes in earnest. Ann Veronica glanced at the mirror to discover a flushed and dishevelled disorder. ” “No? But it is very simple. Where is Father Spencer? I must have absolution. Wood had the advantage of her husband in point of years, being on the sunny side of forty,—a period pronounced by competent judges to be the most fascinating, and, at the same time, most critical epoch of woman's existence,—whereas, he was on the shady side of fifty,—a term of life not generally conceived to have any special recommendation in female eyes. These things were common knowledge among the bon ton, who were generously welcoming these unfortunate escapees. What do you say?” “I agree,” Anna said coldly, “if you will make it three months. Well, this is OUR thing. 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.
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