” And then he flashed his whole conception of the relations of men and women upon her in one astonishing question. She was sick of herself, of her life, of everything but him; and for him all her masked and hidden being was crying out. CHAPTER X. Ruth was at that stage where the absorption of facts is great, but where the mental digestion is not quite equal to the task. ‘Not care? For this he must be an Englishman tout à fait sympathique, and— and I know only. He was carelessly dressed, and there were marks of unrest upon his features. I am quite sure though that they did not mean to be rude. As Leonardo had himself pronounced, who better than a mountebank to teach of the perils awaiting the unwary? Who better than a wastrel to demonstrate the worth of thrift? And who could instruct better in the matter of affections than one who had thrown them away? ‘If he had loved me,’ she said, in the flat tone she had learned to use to conceal her vulnerable heart, ‘he would have left me at Remenham House to live a life of an English lady. The soil was identical, the climate; still, they would not bear the Olympian fruit, with its purple-lined jacket and its snow-white pulp. The joke of it is that he’s married to her now, and cuts me dead. He would require things of her, and she would be passionately concerned to meet his requirements. ’ ‘Yes, but in fact you’ve offered me far more entertainment than any French spy could have done. She had no intention whatsoever of spending her life in a convent, but that was not his affair.
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