‘Think I’m fool enough to do my business in a convent?’ he said scornfully. "She considers her future blasted beyond hope. She galloped up the small stairs, hearing that Shari had finally risen. He remembered it suddenly. He asked her whether she understood what she was saying, and went on to say still more precisely that she should never touch a penny of his money until she came home again—not one penny. And like that gospel it meant something, something different from its phrases, something elusive, and yet something that in spite of the superficial incoherence of its phrasing, was largely essentially true. Something or other—she did not catch what—he was damned if he could stand. She visited the corner that had been her own little garden—her forget-me-nots and candytuft had long since been elbowed into insignificance by weeds; she visited the raspberry-canes that had sheltered that first love affair with the little boy in velvet, and the greenhouse where she had been wont to read her secret letters. Sheppard; and, as soon as he could command his feelings, which were considerably excited by the mention of her distresses, he squeezed her hand warmly, bestowed a hearty execration upon his own inhumanity, and swore he would neither separate her from her child, nor suffer any one else to separate them. ’ ‘Ah, non?’ Her voice was neutral. I still have a cross stitch she made for me of a little fairy sitting on a daffodil. He was yellow and coarse of hair; flea-bitten, too; and even as he smiled at Ruth and wagged his stumpy tail, he was forced to turn savagely upon one of these disturbers who had no sense of the fitness of things. He drew her close up to him with a strong, steady pull. Now I know that you don’t live as close to the Beck house as you once pretended.
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