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He was acutely conscious of his costume, and was quite relieved when he saw, not Ruth, but a severe-looking young man, who advanced upon him in a tight-lipped, pop-eyed manner that suggested dislike and hostility. The visitor was a complete stranger to him, but, his wandering wits returning to their duties, he deduced that this must be one of Ruth's relatives.
Morton rushed down the hallway of the latter's apartment in response to the screams from Ruth's bedroom, they were one and all convinced that the girl had suffered some terrible injury that the mysterious threats to destroy her beauty which had been made during the past few days had been converted into some frightful reality.
When the girl of the Red Mill sang, Ann Hicks felt her heart throb and the tears rise in her eyes. She loved Ruth's kind of music; yet she, herself, could not carry a tune. Mercy was strictly attentive to her own books. Mercy was a bookworm nor did she like being asked questions about her studies. Those first few weeks Ann Hicks's recitations did not receive very high marks.
Altogether their income did not fall much short of a hundred a year, and they lived in the Chapel-house free of rent. So Ruth's small earnings were but very little in actual hard commercial account, though in another sense they were much; and Miss Benson always received them with quiet simplicity. By degrees, Mr Benson absorbed some of Ruth's time in a gracious and natural way.
The three girls praised the suit and hat so warmly that a flush of pure pleasure in her clothes rose to Ruth's face. Grace, however, examined the inside of the coat and the lining of the hat with the utmost care. Every telltale mark had been removed. Even the boxes themselves were plain. The giver had evidently wished his or her identity to remain a mystery.
You should find cover on the rocks while we hold the near sea for you. if Czerny gets a foothold there and beats that door in, I need not tell you how it will go with us. For the rest, I leave two men at the stairs-head and two in this hail to be at Miss Ruth's call. Peter Bligh and Dolly Venn go up with me to work the gun. If they rush it well, twenty there won't keep them back with rifles.
"Sweet, gentle, docile! Yes, that is the style of wife Rawdon men prefer. What does Ethel say?" "She is delighted. It was her idea. I was much pleased with her thoughtfulness. Any serious break in my life would now be a great discomfort. You need not look so satirical, mother; I thought of Ruth's life also."
I think now that I made a mistake and that neither of us ought ever to have attempted homesteading. So much has happened that is different from what I anticipated. Not the existence itself; I don't mean that. Other things. Ruth's change, chiefly. See, Lee, I speak frankly, for we've usually been frank toward each other.
She read Ruth's brief sketch of the plot she had originated for the school play, and approved it. "The Heart of a Schoolgirl" was forthwith put into shape to show Mr. Hammond when he came to Lumberton, that event being expected daily.
Well, that is what my good friend does always." It was like listening to music to hear the slow, drawling words of the invalid. Ruth's hand closed softly over his. "I have some pretty stories at home about flowers," she said; "would you like to read them?" "I can't read very well," answered Bob, in unabashed simplicity. Yet his spoken words were flawless.
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