Sordid; but that was not Ruth's term for it; she had no precise commentary to offer. The wall of the sky, the wall of the horizon, the wall behind which each human being hid—the wall behind which she herself was hiding! If only her mother had lived, her darling mother! Presently the unhappy puzzlement left her face; and an inward glow began to lighten it. ” “Well, I take it we’re straight again,” said Capes with a note of relief, and assumed an easier position on the edge of her table. She made a few protests, a few excuses for her action in accepting him, a few lame explanations, but he did not heed them or care for them. The thought of their faces, and particularly of her aunt’s, as it would meet the fact— disconcerted, unfriendly, condemning, pained—occurred to her again and again. She listened, listened intently for several minutes. Pitt, the governor, a tall pompous personage, who, in his turn, ushered in four other individuals. He was not in love with her en désespoir which, he said, was necessary if a man would marry without getting a dowry from his wife. By the time I had recovered myself she had gone. In fine, to marry Ruth (if she would consent) as a punishment for what he had done! To whip his soul so long as he lived, but to let his body go free! To provide for her, to work and dream for her, to be tender and thoughtful and loyal, to shelter and guard her, to become accountable to God for her future.
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