" "Possibly not," replied Thames, in some confusion; "but I am not at liberty to speak. A short way off in the fields he descried a sort of shed or cow-house, and thither he contrived to drag his weary limbs. I make no apology for not being with you now. ‘And you know, my dear, I do think you must make up your mind to beard this wretched grandfather of yours. Against the sinister, the threatening, monstrous inhumanity of the limitless city, there was nothing now but this supreme, ugly fact of a pursuit— the pursuit of the undesired, persistent male. It is not for myself I fear. He was standing by, rating her ladyship,—who can scarcely stir from the sofa,—while I was packing up her jewels in the case, and I observed that she tried to hide a small casket from him. Her eyes were wide and bright. The Dawn Pearl! To be with her constantly, with no diversions to serve as barricades! Damn McClintock for putting this thought in his head—that Ruth loved him! He flung himself upon the beach, face downward, his outflung hands digging into the sand: which was oddly like his problem—he could not grip it. ” “Suppose he comes and talks to me?” “A girl can always keep a man at a distance if she cares to do it. “You don’t want to go?” “No. Too skilled to advertise their presence by a show of arms and men. “We can,” he said, “and we will. This last operation was so fatiguing, that for a short time he was obliged to pause to recover the use of his fingers. At last, after a long rumbling journey in a stuffy windowless van, she reached Canongate Prison—for Holloway had its quota already.
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