Daughters were not like sons. "
The shock of hearing this title pronounced was equally distributed between Ruth
and her husband; but it aroused two absolutely different emotions. . John’s parents were won over. Inexplicably there flashed into vision the Chinese wedding procession in the
narrow, twisted streets of the city, that first day: the gorgeous palanquin, the tomtoms, the weird music, the ribald, jeering mob that trailed along behind. The
soil was identical, the climate; still, they would not bear the Olympian fruit, with
its purple-lined jacket and its snow-white pulp. ‘Think I’m fool enough to do my business in a convent?’ he said scornfully. 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. Let’s have
an advance round of applause for our concertmaster,
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Lucy Albert!”
Lucy was horrified.
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