“No, stay, Lucy. The noise of a bolt came to Alderley’s ears. "
"Well then, to change it," replied Thames, gravely, "suppose I should be obliged
to leave you. The idea of Ruth as a
talisman against misfortune—which he now recognized as a sick man's idea—
faded as his appreciation of the absurd reasserted itself. ” She shook her head. He was a handsome
man, and Lucy could see the strong resemblance of John
to him. When he came to a certain sentence in
Brendon’s letter he stopped short and looked up at her. One marked difference
between the poor outcast, who, oppressed by poverty, and stung by shame, had
sought temporary relief in the stupifying draught,—that worst "medicine of a
mind diseased,"—and those of the same being, freed from her vices, and restored
to comfort and contentment, if not to happiness, by a more prosperous course of
events, was exhibited in the mouth. , etc. But that other world, in spite of her resolute exclusion of it, was always
looking round corners and peeping through chinks and crannies, and rustling and
raiding into the order in which she chose to live, shining out of pictures at her,
echoing in lyrics and music; it invaded her dreams, it wrote up broken and
enigmatical sentences upon the passage walls of her mind.
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