Not a word was uttered for some time, nor any sound heard except the stilled sobs of the unfortunate mother. From time to time she would come upon a line of singular beauty or a paragraph full of haunting music; and these would send her rushing on for something that never happened. "Beg pardon," he said, "but isn't smoking allowed in the dining room?" "It probably is," answered Prudence, "but that in no wise mitigates the odiousness of the procedure. After all, it came to him suddenly as a harsh discovery that she might be in a sense regarded as grownup. Messengers were despatched to all the constables and head-boroughs to be in attendance,—to the sheriffs to have an extraordinary number of their officers in attendance,—and to the Savoy, to obtain the escort of a troop of grenadierguards. On the one hand, she seemed to think plainly and simply, and would talk serenely and freely about topics that most women have been trained either to avoid or conceal; and on the other she was unconscious, or else she had an air of being unconscious—that was the riddle—to all sorts of personal applications that almost any girl or woman, one might have thought, would have made. In the presence of the husband of his mistress Rollo was always dignifiedly cheerful, but he never leaped or cavorted as he did when alone with Ruth. ’ He shifted unguardedly, and hissed a breath, wincing. "And you would surrender yourself —eh?" "I'll surrender myself at once, if you'll engage to bring him off; and you'll get the reward from old Wood. "No prize shall indushe me to enter dat horrid plashe again. " "True," replied the widow, upon whom all the terrible recollections of the day before crowded, "I know it isn't. “Come,” he said, “you can’t be meaning to bury yourself. She realized more and more the quality of the brink upon which she stood—the dreadful readiness with which in certain moods she might plunge, the unmitigated wrongness and recklessness of such a self-abandonment. Don’t touch the handle, Annabel! Curse the thing, you’ve jammed it now. He breathed a little sigh of satisfaction.
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