Melusine fetched her stool and plonked it down next to her great-aunt’s chair. "Fire! That was what drew me to you in the beginning. She never had been much of a looker, but she had stopped worrying about such things long ago. Love … to take her in his arms and to comfort her: and then to add to her cup of bitterness the knowledge that her husband was a thief! For himself he did not care; God could continue to grind and pulverize him; but to add another grain to the evil he had already wrought upon Ruth was unthinkable. Such was the effect produced upon the passengers by his good looks and manly deportment, that few—especially of the gentler and more susceptible sex—failed to turn round and bestow a second glance upon the handsome stranger. “But it makes me feel inhuman,” he added. He looked half at her and half at the sky. You know that. He no longer made love to her, as there was no point. A few yards further off something grey, inert, was lying, a huddled-up heap of humanity twisted into a strange unnatural shape. A skeleton was propped against the mantelpiece. He could not see these two shrinking misses capering about in a nun’s habit and brandishing a defiant pistol. "Something more than whisky did that. He offered me at once an engagement.
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