He saw the colossal selfishness of his
act; but he could not beg off on the plea of abnormality. Crouching down, Gerald waited, hands at the ready. “I was surprised, I admit,” he said. "Are you returning to Hong-Kong to-morrow by the day boat?"
For a moment Ruth was astonished at the sound of the spinster's voice. "To-morrow I will take you to
him. Her fingers rested upon his. When her shock and the headache subsided, and she
remembered that she had been reading the letter when Gosse had accosted her,
she looked for it in vain. "
"And all the time you loved her?"—appalled. Still, one never could tell. She ducked behind a pile of unused drywall. Think—think of
that engagement!”
Their talk had come to eloquent silences that contradicted all he had to say. He was continually dramatizing the future, anticipating
the singular role he had elected to play. Having once more got into the chimney, he climbed to a level with the ward
above, and recommenced operations as vigorously as before. On the cords being removed, he made a
desperate spring at Wild, bore him to the ground, clutched at his throat, and
would, infallibly, have strangled him, if the keepers had not all thrown
themselves upon him, and by main force torn him off. ”
“Do you think of these things—these matters—as belonging to our Higher
Nature or our Lower?”
“I don’t deal in Higher Things, I tell you,” said Ann Veronica, “or Lower, for
the matter of that.
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