” It came upon him like a flash. "As yet," pursued the stranger, "Sir Montacute had placed no limit to his son's expenditure. The fragrance of dryer sheets lay upon her like the snow that now drifted peacefully outside. "Anything that concerns Ruth is of interest to me. . ‘If you did not want me to talk of it,’ she told him with characteristic insouciance, ‘you should not have mentioned the matter to me. Love, obliterated, annihilated; out of his heart and out of his Bible. But it was of no avail. She could not see what occurred, though she guessed it; but she saw Jonathan's devilish triumphing glance, and read in it,—"Your son has committed a robbery—here—in these holy walls—he is mine—mine for ever!" She uttered a loud scream, and fainted. She did not want to seem to shrink from conversation, but all sorts of odd questions were running through her mind. But they did not know how good she was, how perfect she was. One marked difference between the poor outcast, who, oppressed by poverty, and stung by shame, had sought temporary relief in the stupifying draught,—that worst "medicine of a mind diseased,"—and those of the same being, freed from her vices, and restored to comfort and contentment, if not to happiness, by a more prosperous course of events, was exhibited in the mouth. Michelle was laid onto the back seat, her head cradled in Lucy’s lap.
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