Now that she was his, to make or mar, she presented an extraordinary
fascination. I spent this afternoon in
detention. . It was not as bad a wound as she had at first thought, and the blood
was only oozing now. ’
‘Nonsense, it’ll give Pottiswick something genuine to complain about,’ said
Gerald cheerfully, moving to the edge of the trees. Already he was dramatizing Ruth, involving her, now in some pearl
thieving adventure, now in some impossible tale of a white goddess. “This is the slavery of the veiled life. The chromatic fiction with which he relieved his mind glanced but slightly at
this aspect of life, and never with any quality of guidance. The
first time, I overlooked the offence; but the second time, when I had planned to
break open the house of his master, the fellow who visited you to-night,—Wood,
the carpenter of Wych Street,—he betrayed me. Apologizing to Sir
Rowland for this unpleasant reception, and swearing lustily at his servant for
occasioning it by leaving the dogs at liberty, Jonathan ordered the man to light
them to the audience-room. It must be my fault that you have not
learnt that your husband is the man to come to—at such a time as this. I’m glad the old sore is assuaged. . Everything was fresh and
bright, from the kindly manners of the Frutigen cobbler, who hammered
mountain nails into her boots, to the unfamiliar wild flowers that spangled the
wayside. Wood and the waterman, meanwhile, proceeded in the direction of St.
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