. We'll have him yet. She was now permitted freely to study the face. “That’s a weird name. Standing on tiptoe, on a joint-stool, placed upon the bench, with his back to the
door, and a clasp-knife in his hand, this youngster, instead of executing his
appointed task, was occupied in carving his name upon a beam, overhead. He was still flashily dressed, with much obvious
jewellery and the shiniest of patent boots, but his general bearing and appearance
had altered for the worse. With the extra
seventy-five pounds she had put after birthing her final
son, Steven, her knees weren’t in good shape to be
running up and down stairs all day. "You will never leave me," sobbed the poor woman, straining him to her breast. “I’m inclined to think, Stanley, myself that as a
matter of fact it was the expurgated Romeo and Juliet did the mischief. When she came in after dinner that night, Ruth was no longer an interesting
phenomenon, something figuratively to tear apart and investigate: she was
talismanic. “I have waited for this,” he said, and stood quite still, looking at her until the
silence became oppressive. "
Her attitude now entirely sisterly, he ceased to be afraid of her; there was never
anything in her eyes (so far as he could see) but friendly interest in all he said or
did. It plucked shingles from the school building,
threatening to shake them all loose one by one like rotting
teeth. She looked away. He had not proceeded far when
he was alarmed by the tramp of a horse, which seemed to be rapidly
approaching, and he had scarcely time to leap the hedge and conceal himself
behind a tree, when a tall man, enveloped in an ample cloak, with his hat pulled
over his brows, rode by at full speed.
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