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"Isn't she nice?" whispered Ruth, as she and Helen made their exit from the room. "Ye-es," admitted her chum. "But you can see she is dreadfully 'bossy." At that Ruth laughed heartily. "You foolish child!" she said, shaking her chum a little. "Isn't she here to 'boss'? My goodness! you didn't expect to do just as you pleased here at Briarwood; did you?"
And then he left her and went back to his seat. But Ruth found, when he had gone, that the choke came back into her throat again and the sting of unshed tears to her eyes. But she would not let those same tears fall! She stared out of the plate-glass window and saw that it was now quite dark.
I am going to help take care of him," said Ruth, quite ordinarily, as though taking care of unknown derelicts was an ordinary event in her life. "What? help take care of him? Why, you can't do that, Miss Enschede!" was the protest. "Why can't I?" "You will be compromised. It isn't as if he were stricken with typhoid or pneumonia or something like that. You will certainly be compromised."
"Don't fret, my girl, it will all come right now in time. It is no wonder," turning to Miss Stannard, "she has been so slow getting better. I have said a hundred times the girl had something on her mind." Miss Ruth turned to Rosy again. "Does the child's mother, or do her people live here in the city?" she inquired. The eyelids failed to move, which according to the doctor meant no.
She never learned their names; perhaps she did not want to. Ruth got up rather earlier than usual on that Saturday morning. She had a dull, stunned kind of feeling round her heart. She was glad of that; she was glad that she was not acutely sorry, or acutely glad, or acutely anxious about anything. "If I could always be like this, nothing would matter," she said to herself.
Don't think me cruel; it was the truest kindness. You and I have something to say to each other. I know a quiet nook where we can be alone. Come, Ruth come with me!" Ruth rose mechanically and followed her guide through a door in the wall, which led to a square piece of ground, bare and ugly, a cabbage- patch in name and in deed.
I hope you won't object, if you happen to be the chatelaine?" "Ah, but I shan't! I have no chance against the other two; but I also intend to spend my holidays here, and I tell Ruth she must send home hampers every week.
Harry was for the moment in no condition to lend a hand, and since Lady Caroline would as lief have touched leprosy as have accepted help from Ruth Josselin, her ascent into the van fell something short of dignity.
"If you are lazy, the sun is too," she said, "for, like yourself, it has just risen." "That makes him lazier," returned Parmalee, "for he went to rest a good deal earlier than I did last night." Ruth laughed, and, after introducing the young men to each other, she vanished in the direction of the captain's cabin. The pair exchanged the usual commonplaces as they moved toward the companionway.
The professor sat down; and Philip without a word placed before him the picture which the Salon had rejected; Foinet nodded but did not speak; then Philip showed him the two portraits he had made of Ruth Chalice, two or three landscapes which he had painted at Moret, and a number of sketches. "That's all," he said presently, with a nervous laugh.
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