She sat there, a mark for boulevarders, the unconscious object of numberless wondering glances. Annabel seated herself in an easy chair and determined to wait for her sister’s return. But Gerald kept to a casual note. 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. Very slowly, very fearfully, she turned her head. “You poor thing. No man knew whence she had come nor why. " Well knowing the savage temper of the person she had to deal with, and how likely he was to put his threat into execution, Mrs. Brewis had told him the Valade family had been victim to wholesale murder, and a twinge of compassion had wrung even his deliberately hardened heart. Brute! Fool! To have come to her on such an errand. Listening at one of the doors leading to the Master Debtors' side, he heard a loud voice chanting a Bacchanalian melody, and the boisterous laughter that accompanied the song, convinced him that no suspicion was entertained in this quarter. Most of all she enjoyed the gentle gratitude of her foster family members, even the teasing 7 of Mike, her foster brother, who liked to play food critic to give her a hard time. 2. What right had she to call herself “Alcide”? It was abominable, an imposture.
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