Why had he kissed her? What had led him into that? Neither love nor passion— utter blankness so far as reducing the act to terms. About her, as she had gone day by day to and from the Tredgold College, she had seen and not seen many an incidental aspect of those sides of life about which girls are expected to know nothing, aspects that were extraordinarily relevant to her own position and outlook on the world, and yet by convention ineffably remote. After a series of mental gymnastics—occupying the space of a few seconds—it came to him with a shock that here was a new specimen of the species. A native of Manchester, he was the son of Kenelm Kneebone, a staunch Catholic, and a sergeant of dragoons, who lost his legs and his life while fighting for James the Second at the battle of the Boyne, and who had little to bequeath his son except his laurels and his loyalty to the house of Stuart. He tried not to think—of Ruth with her mother's locket, of her misguided father, taking his lonely way to sea. Both had very singular faces; very odd wigs, very much pulled over their brows; and very large cravats, very much raised above their chins. “I wish,” she said, “that you would leave off looking at me as though I were something grisly. Good night! God bless you!" Upon this, there was a great shaking of hands, with renewed apologies and protestations of friendship on both sides; after which Mr. ’ ‘Are you mad?’ ‘Gerald is convinced there is a secret passage into the house,’ explained Roding. The Malays have one, too, but it's a rank imitation, tom-toms and all.
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