” “And the man stands as the master at the mouth of the den. . ” Annabel rose to her feet. And, in applying the term to his friend, Thames meant to pay him a high compliment. It has been only the sort of nonsense which passes lightly enough between half the men and women in London. “Some day you will be my wife, and it would not be well for either of us to remember that in these unhappy days you and I were separated. "What is it?" "Can't you see? Together, down there; you and I!… As my wife! Both of us, never to be lonely again!… Will you marry me, Ruth?" As many a wiser woman had done, Ruth mistook thrilling eagerness for love. His features were regular, and finely-formed; his complexion bright and blooming,—a little shaded, however, by travel and exposure to the sun; and, with a praiseworthy contempt for the universal and preposterous fashion then prevailing, of substituting a peruke for the natural covering of the head, he allowed his own dark-brown hair to fall over his shoulders in ringlets as luxuriant as those that distinguished the court gallant in Charles the Second's days—a fashion, which we do not despair of seeing revived in our own days. She glanced towards her sister, and curiously enough found in her face some faint reflection of her own rather sombre mirth. The poor child! What frightful things she must have seen on that island of hers! The noise of crashing glass caused a diversion; and Ruth turned gratefully toward the sound. Nicholas is dead. ‘I recall my father speaking of you as a Remenham. This she would not endure. The kindly faced landlady had failed to catch his name, and said he was a tall, handsome gentleman with a great black mustache.
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