The Return
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II. Had she not seen them go
forth with tracts in their pockets and grins in their beards? To set fire to his
imagination, to sting his sense of chivalry into being, to awaken his manhood,
she must present some irresistible project. “Be so good as to stand away from that door at once, sir,” Brendon ordered. Wood, who had recovered her good humour, quitted the room she bestowed
a hearty embrace on Thames, and she told him laughingly, that she would "defer
all she had to propose to him until to-morrow. Wood, despair will come over me; and, dear as this babe is to me, far dearer
than my own wretched life, which I would lay down for him any minute, I have
prayed to Heaven to remove him, rather than he should grow up to be a man, and
be exposed to his father's temptations—rather than he should live as wickedly
and die as disgracefully as his father. ”
“Mr. Though, to be
fair, he did not know of it until after the wedding. "
The spinsters had no counter-philosophy to offer; so they turned to Ruth, who
had singularly and unconsciously invested herself with glamour, the glamour of
adventure, which the old maids did not recognize as such because they were only
tourists. Ann Veronica looked up at him and found him regarding her with eyes that
were almost woebegone, and into which, indeed, he was trying to throw much
more expression than they could carry. He stared at her stupidly, forgetting to
guard against the tactics he had come to expect from her. “I don’t know. But nobody drinks on my
island unless I offer it, which is seldom.
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