The big pay strikes them; but when
they find there's no place to spend it, good-bye!"
Tom the cook came in with the chops and the potatoes—the doctor's dinner—
and McClintock fell to with a gusto which suggested that there was still some
liver under his ribs. The person, shortly afterwards ushered into the room, seemed by the imperfect
light,—for the evening was advancing, and the chamber darkened by heavy
drapery,—to be a middle-sized middle-aged man, of rather vulgar appearance,
but with a very shrewd aspect. A nod was exchanged. But I shall lose my
wager if I stay a moment longer—so here goes. Men and women
are not established things; they’re experiments, all of them. “You will not object,” he said, glancing towards her, “to accepting a deposit. ’
As if to bear her out, the door opened at this precise moment to admit Saling,
who barely announced Captain Roding before the man himself strode into the
room. "
So Ruth heard about the poets; she became tolerably familiar with the exploits of
that engaging ruffian Cellini; she heard of the pathetic deafness of Beethoven;
she was thrilled, saddened, exhilarated; and on the evening of the twelfth day she
made bold to enter the talk.
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