Wood's
astonishment and displeasure momentarily increased. Miss Garvice assumed a
quality of neutrality, professed herself almost won over by Ann Veronica’s
example, and the Scotchman decided that if women had a distinctive sphere it
was, at any rate, an enlarging sphere, and no one who believed in the doctrine of
evolution could logically deny the vote to women “ultimately,” however much
they might be disposed to doubt the advisability of its immediate concession. Love … to take her in his arms and to comfort her: and then to add to her cup of
bitterness the knowledge that her husband was a thief! For himself he did not
care; God could continue to grind and pulverize him; but to add another grain to
the evil he had already wrought upon Ruth was unthinkable. “I believe that you are right,” he said softly. I am sorry to seem to hurt you, but all I say is
for your good. “Please forgive me, Lucy. Brute! Fool! To
have come to her on such an errand. How little he
knew about Ruth—the background from which she had sprung! He knew that
her father was a missioner, that her mother was dead, that she had been born on
this island, and that, at the time of his collapse, she had been on the way to an
aunt in the States. Pistols and pictures? Now it fair goes agin’ me nature to act
rough with a lady, but you’ll come along of me at once. She
knew that the next time he caught her she would not be able to free herself. We have played at a little mild lovemaking again. "
"I will—I will," replied Wood hastily. Unless he has dealings with the devil, he could never have done
this alone. Afterward he stole out of the room with the bloodstained
sheet to boast her virginity to his brothers and father,
which only truly mattered because she was beautiful, her
mother had said.
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