A vast relief filled Spurlock's heart as he
decided to tell this man everything which related to Ruth. ’
‘Will you go back there?’ asked Gerald. About many of these houses hung a mysterious taint as of something weakly
and commonly and dustily evil; the women who negotiated the rooms looked out
through a friendly manner as though it was a mask, with hard, defiant eyes. "'Faith, an' you may say that," returned a watchman, who was wiping a ruddy
stream from his brow; "they've broken the paice, and our pates into the bargain. The latter
specimen, of his workmanship was adorned with a little scarecrow figure,
intended to represent a housebreaking chimney-sweeper of the time, described in
Sheppard's own hand-writing, as 'Jack Hall a-hanging. ‘He can’t be Valade, that’s certain,’ mused Gerald, unheeding. ’
‘You would speak of the house?’
‘Many’s the time little Miss Mary would say her papa meant for her to have it,
she having no brothers and sisters at all—when we played together I mean, she
and me and Joan Pottiswick. The name of this damsel was Edgeworth Bess; and, as her
fascinations will not, perhaps, be found to be without some influence upon the
future fortunes of her boyish admirer, we have thought it worth while to be thus
particular in describing them. It was locked. She looked
directly at his face, his perpetually graying hair, his
hawkish nose, his long cheekbones. In vain Wood protested his
innocence. She glanced at him and made a dismissive gesture.
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