126 Lucy drank them as the first rays of watery sunlight seeped through the mullioned windows, then put their husks in the claw-footed bathtub. Through that she had to go. But—It’s just this: who was to be hurt?” “I wish no one had to be hurt,” said Ann Veronica. ” Mr. CHAPTER XXVII. " He did not reply. Lucy slipped upstairs silently. Lucy led Michelle to the skeleton of the newly emerging two-story. Heaven knows what dim and tawdry conceptions of passion and desire were in that blond cranium, what romance-begotten dreams of intrigue and adventure! but they sufficed, when presently Ann Veronica went out into the darkling street again, to inspire a flitting, dogged pursuit, idiotic, exasperating, indecent. She thought her niece very hard and very self-possessed and self-confident. "What shall I say? Shall I tell you, or shall I leave you in the dark—as I must always leave her? What shall I say except that I am accursed of men? Yes; I have loved something—her mother. 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. Her heart in her mouth, she heard his foot scrape on the floorboard and knew from his expression that Gosse had heard it too. " "Could I credit your wild story, I might do so," returned Thames, with a look of perplexity. Suddenly remembering Kimble, her heart thudded with excitement.
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