‘Hadn’t meant you to know,’ said the nun gruffly. She fell asleep instantaneously, fatigued from weeks of exhaustion. Now you will learn the result. Steeples toppled, and towers reeled beneath its fury. One night, she drew close to him in bed, trying to warm herself by embracing his back. How little he knew about Ruth—the background from which she had sprung! He knew that her father was a missioner, that her mother was dead, that she had been born on this island, and that, at the time of his collapse, she had been on the way to an aunt in the States. To have the present lengthen into years! But in a few hours she would be upon her way, far lonelier than she had ever been. No gentleman was ever called Thames, and Darrell is a gentleman, unless the whole story of his being found in the river is a fabrication!" "My dear, you forget—" "No, Mr. Skirting the noble gardens of Montague House, (now, we need scarcely say, the British Museum,) the party speedily reached Great Russell Street,—a quarter described by Strype, in his edition of old Stow's famous Survey, "as being graced with the best buildings in all Bloomsbury, and the best inhabited by the nobility and gentry, especially the north side, as having gardens behind the houses, and the prospect of the pleasant fields up to Hampstead and Highgate; insomuch that this place, by physicians, is esteemed the most healthful of any in London.
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