The cloth was removed, and
Wood, drawing the table as near the window as possible—for it was getting dusk
—put on his spectacles, and opened that sacred volume from which the best
consolation in affliction is derived, and left the lovers—for such they may now
be fairly termed—to their own conversation. Later, when the Reverend Henry Dolby entered the Spurlock room, his wife and
daughter trailing amusedly behind him, and beheld the strained eagerness on the
two young faces, he smiled inwardly and indulgently. The trio exhibited that indecisive air with which Ah Cum was tolerably
familiar. He was always word-building, a
metaphorist, lavish with singing adjectives; but often he built in confusion
because it was difficult to describe something beautiful in a new yet simple way. "You want him?"
"Please!" said Ruth.
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