’ ‘Oh, do they?’ Gerald said, sudden wrath kindling. Ruth did not reply, but stared past the doctor, her eyes misty. Had she too been flying from something and had accepted this method of escape? But what frying-pan could be equal to this fire? All this led him back to the original circle. He kissed her ardently. ’ ‘Captain Roding, sir,’ put in Gerald, adding on a jocular note, ‘Another of the green whippersnappers you had to contend with some years back. The picture in her mind altered and she saw again the way Gerald had looked with consternation upon the bruises he had inflicted on her wrist. ’ I wanted, as I have never wanted before, to take you up, to make you mine, to carry you off and set you apart from all the strain and turmoil of life. One day her mother swept into the bedroom of the family townhouse, sweeping across the floor with a bundle in her arms. He grunted, and his grip gave. Her complexion was wan and faded, except where it was tinged by a slight hectic flush, that made the want of colour more palpable; her eyes were large and black, but heavy and lustreless; her cheeks sunken; her frame emaciated; her dark hair thickly scattered with gray. Not even for Ruth could he do such a beastly thing. ‘But we—mon mari and myself—we have the bonne chance.
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