’ The mention of Alderley’s name, as Roding had confidently expected, caused the soldiers’ eyes to veer across to the young lady again, this time with a good deal less sympathy, and much more uncertainty. You don’t know what you’re saying, and I hope you never will. She could now see to read; so she stirred the manuscript about until she came upon the first page. " "A child!" thought Wood; it must be the fugitive Darrell. Nevertheless, Ann Veronica found it a difficult matter not to think of these things. She reached a tiny yellow-fronted cottage covered with flowering creepers, and entered the front room by the wide-open window. The black, meantime, began to ply his hammer, and speedily unriveted the chains. And so bitterly did the carpenter reproach himself with his neglect, that he resolved, at all risks, to go back in search of it. The first circumstance that struck her on her arrival seemed ominous. A strange betrothal!—the primal idea of which was escape! The girl, intent upon abrogating for ever all legal rights of the father in the daughter, of rendering innocuous the thing she had now named the Terror: the boy, seeking selfcrucifixion in expiation of his transgression, changing a peccadillo into damnation! It was easy for Ruth to surrender to the idea, for she believed she was loved; and in gratitude it was already her determination to give this boy her heart's blood, drop by drop, if he wanted it. She tried to imagine the collective effect of the Fadden Ball; she had never seen a fancy-dress gathering in her life.
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