“But why,” he said in the gasping voice of one subduing an agony, and looked
at her from under a pain-wrinkled brow, “why did you not tell me this before?”
“I didn’t know—I thought I might be able to control myself. ’
‘You little fiend,’ exclaimed Gerald wrathfully. Sheppard," said Wood, glancing round the
chamber, as he expanded his palms before the scanty flame. Then suddenly he seized a new
preparation bottle that stood upon his table and contained the better part of a
week’s work—a displayed dissection of a snail, beautifully done—and hurled it
across the room, to smash resoundingly upon the cemented floor under the
bookcase; then, without either haste or pause, he swept his arm along a shelf of
re-agents and sent them to mingle with the debris on the floor. ”
“How absurd!” Annabel declared. While he was straining every sinew, his foot slipped, and he fell, head foremost,
into a deep trench, which he had not observed in the dark. ‘Do you think I could bear to be without you for a moment longer? I am quite
jealous of Melusine taking up all your attention. "I yield to
fate. “How I am to earn enough sous for my dinner to-morrow—or failing that, what I
can sell. If ever
the denouement came—if ever the Hand reached him—Ruth would then
understand why he had rebuffed all her tender advances. It was the beginning and the end of the transaction. ”
He was bereft of words for a moment, and in that moment she escaped, having
passed him on deftly to one of the later arrivals. Something as yet
unformulated within her kept her estranged from all these practical aspects of her
beliefs.
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