Having accomplished his intent, Gerald let the lad go and had himself driven back to Stratton Street. The pause lengthened, and he had the satisfaction of seeing despair melt the set mockery of Spurlock's mouth. “A very clear statement, madam,” he said. She began at once a hasty readjustment of her hair, while Ramage parleyed with inaudible interrogations. The evening breeze came; the bamboo shades on the veranda clicked and rasped; the loose edges of the manuscript curled. But the aunt seized her in her arms and rocked with her. And an Englishman, which is my right of birth. The terrific mental tension of the past few months —that had held his bodily nourishment in a kind of strangulation—became as a dream; and now his vitals responded rapidly to food and air. ‘Something for you, Lucy?’ he asked, interrupting a heated argument that had obviously been in progress for some little time before their arrival. She sat on the edge of her bed and looked about her, at her room, at the row of black-covered books and the pig’s skull. No sooner had they entered the room than Sharples, who waited to usher them in, hastily retreated, closed the door, and turning the key, laughed loudly at the success of his stratagem. Sordid; but that was not Ruth's term for it; she had no precise commentary to offer. It frightened her to behold her heart and mind thus laid bare; but the chapter following would reassure her. "Do you realize that you are several kinds of a damned scoundrel?" he began.
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