Now she was to be married to him and it
horrified her. "I suppose it didn't
drop through the ceiling, did it? Are you quite sure it's flesh and blood?" asked
he, playfully pinching its arm till it cried out with pain. But at the beginning of the affray, when he
thought every one was too much occupied with his own concerns to remark his
absence, he slipped out of the room, not for the purpose of avoiding the
engagement (for cowardice was not one of his failings), but because he had
another object in view. Here you only waste your time. You must come and tell me
all about it, although I am not sure whether we shall forgive you for not having
written to any of us. 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. About ten days after this interview, Blueskin, having been indicted by Wild for
several robberies, and true bills found against him, was placed at the bar of the
Old Bailey to be arraigned; when he declared that he would not plead to the
indictment, unless the sum of five hundred pounds, taken from him by Jonathan
Wild, was first restored to him. . "Have you sent off the note?" inquired Jack. When she confessed all
this to her charge, telling the now grown up babe that there was no hope in the
world of establishing any claim, she very soon discovered her mistake.
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