The first Step towards the Ladder VII. Her first intimations of marriage as a fact of extreme significance in a woman’s life had come with the marriage of Alice and the elopement of her second sister, Gwen. A strange betrothal!—the primal idea of which was escape! The girl, intent upon abrogating for ever all legal rights of the father in the daughter, of rendering innocuous the thing she had now named the Terror: the boy, seeking selfcrucifixion in expiation of his transgression, changing a peccadillo into damnation! It was easy for Ruth to surrender to the idea, for she believed she was loved; and in gratitude it was already her determination to give this boy her heart's blood, drop by drop, if he wanted it. ’ Melusine’s instant annoyance must have shown in her face. Wait!" He released himself from his aunt's embrace, ran to the trunk and fetched the old coat. "What?… Oh!… Well, good Lord!" He wrenched loose his head and stood up, sending the chair clattering to the floor. The sing-song girl, her fiddle broken, was beating her forehead upon the floor and wailing: Ai, ai! Ai, ai! Spurlock—or Taber, as he called himself—sat slumped in a chair, staring with glazed eyes at nothing, absolutely uninterested in the confusion for which he was primarily accountable. He could talk to her as frankly as he could to a man, that she would not take offence at anything so long as it was in the form of explanation. “Annabel;” he moaned. ” He sat down on her left side and put his hand on her knee, gesturing with his other hand. Sheppard. "I shall like to call you that. ” “I’m so glad. She stopped abruptly at the sound of his voice, and lost the thread of what she was saying. Mauled about!” She fell to rubbing her insulted lips savagely with the back of her hand.
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