While this was taking place, another and more serious interruption occurred. At this juncture, and just as a cuckoo-clock in
the corner struck sis, Jack Sheppard walked into the room, with the packing-case
under his arm. Their idea of maidenly
innocence was just a blank white—the sort of flat white that doesn’t shine. He had often read about it, and once he had incorporated
it in a story, that invisible force which sent men to prison and to the gallows,
when a tongue controlled would have meant liberty indefinite. ‘You imbecile. She sat herself upon the bed. These were so
outside her experience that she found it possible to thrust them almost out of
sight by saying they would be “all right” in confident tones to herself. She listened with growing apprehension to the
tale that Gerald told, omitting any mention of pistols and daggers, and at the end
delivered herself of various expletives highly unsuited to a lady of her advanced
years. ”
“With you!”
“And as for your people?”
“They don’t count. She did not understand the note of hostility to men that
ran through it all, the bitter vindictiveness that lit Miss Miniver’s cheeks and
eyes, the sense of some at last insupportable wrong slowly accumulated. ”
They went on for a time without another word. Capital swordsman. Lord Charvill champed upon an invisible bit for a moment or two, closing the
gap between himself and the girl, and muttering the name to himself in an
overwrought sort of way. She was silent. Oh, yes; of Ruth herself he knew much; but the more he mulled over what he
knew, the deeper grew his chagrin.
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