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At the back of her mind
there seemed always one irrelevant qualifying spectator whose presence she
sought to disregard. One post-midnight meeting, she
could stand it no longer. His hand rested heavily
and cruelly upon Ruth's shoulder. Below
the window he saw two coolies carrying a coffin, which presently they callously
dumped into a yawning pit. But not so much a pig as that man. "By the powers!" he
added, turning his lantern full upon the face of the captive, "he's a nice gennteel-lookin' kiddy, I must say. She went about in a negligent November London that had become very
dark and foggy and greasy and forbidding indeed, and tried to find that modest
but independent employment she had so rashly assumed. Then as she drew nearer paint showed upon her face,
and a harsh purpose behind the quiet expression of her open countenance, and a
sort of unreality in her splendor betrayed itself for which Ann Veronica could not
recall the right word—a word, half understood, that lurked and hid in her mind,
the word “meretricious. Melusine made no reply. “Not much.
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