But you’ve got to lend me forty pounds. Jack was not half your age when
he died. You're a friend of the young
man?"
"If you mean did I know him before he became ill, no. Then they appear among the
lower things”—she made meticulous gestures to figure the scale of life; she
seemed to be holding up specimens, and peering through her glasses at them
—“among crustaceans and things, just as little creatures, ever so inferior to the
females. He laughs at locks and bolts; and the more carefully you guard
your premises from him, the more likely are you to insure an attack. His clothes had evidently seen some service, and were
plentifully begrimed with the dust of the workshop. He seemed to know a great deal about life. “Do you know why they are estranged?” Lucy asked. All his interest in Ruth, all his care and
solicitude, could now be translated into a single word—love. She could not help but admit
that she liked being smiled at and addressed in the
hallways by hordes of friendly faces. The same pale white buttocks, the
same freckles in the same unchanging patterns on her
collarbone that all of her mother’s potions had never
been able to erase. It was
not only that her father had said all sorts of inconsistent and unreasonable things,
but that by some incomprehensible infection she herself had replied in the same
vein. One day she desisted from her search and went unexpectedly to the Tredgold
College.
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