Spurlock began to watch for Ruth's coming in the morning; first, with negligent interest, then with positive eagerness. Then a third secretarial opening occurred and renewed her hopes again: a position as amanuensis—with which some of the lighter duties of a nurse were combined— to an infirm gentleman of means living at Twickenham, and engaged upon a great literary research to prove that the “Faery Queen” was really a treatise upon molecular chemistry written in a peculiar and picturesquely handled cipher. She did not enter the cabin at once, but paused on the threshold and stared at the silent, recumbent figure in the bunk. Ann Veronica had come to the Imperial College obsessed by the great figure of Russell, by the part he had played in the Darwinian controversies, and by the resolute effect of the grim-lipped, yellow, leonine face beneath the mane of silvery hair. “Ye Gods!” she said at last. “It’s glorious good!” “Suppose now—look at this long snow-slope and then that blue deep beyond —do you see that round pool of color in the ice—a thousand feet or more below? Yes? Well, think—we’ve got to go but ten steps and lie down and put our arms about each other. ‘Of course I see that,’ she said impatiently. I am determined to fight my own little battle with the world —there must be a place for me somewhere, and I mean to find it. He had spoken impressively, and most likely Anna, had she reappeared, would have met with a fair reception. " There had never been, from that fatal hour eight months gone down to this, the inclination to confess. Ruth drank in these intellectual controversies, storing away facts. To her consternation, the sound drew her great-aunt’s attention and she threw out a hand. The envelope might contain only a request as to what he wanted done with the manuscripts. ’ ‘Get on, Hilary, do,’ begged Lucilla.
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