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It was this denunciation which had struck to the soul of Helen; and while the anxious Lady Ruthven removed her inanimate form into another room, Bruce read the barbarous triumphs of this disappointed woman. "No power on earth can save him now," continued she; "your doting heart must yield him, Helen, to another rest than your bridal chamber.
These instructions given, Darnley led Morton, Ruthven, Lennox, Lindley, Andrew Carew, and Douglas's bastard into the room adjoining the study, and only separated from it by a tapestry hanging before the door. From there one could overhear all that was being said, and at a single bound fall upon the guests.
We were afraid you might turn from us. And we both love you so much!" "It is kind of you to say that, Marion." Jack's face flushed. "You couldn't be nicer if you were my real sister." "And mother loves you so much." "I know that, too otherwise she wouldn't have taken me in as she did." "What put it in your head to ask me this to-day?" "Something St. John Ruthven said to Darcy Gilbert. St.
Running up to his bedroom, Jack quickly changed the suit which had been soaked the night before for a better one, and then came below again. He hardly knew what to do with himself. The news had set his head in a whirl. At last he decided to go out riding on a pony Mrs. Ruthven had given him a few weeks before.
Marion and Jack thought the world of each other and were all but inseparable. The sudden taking-off of the colonel had proved a great shock both to the children and to Mrs. Ruthven, and for a long time the lady of the house had lain on a bed of sickness, in consequence. She was now around, but still weak and pale. Her one consolation was the children, and she clung to them closer than ever.
This proposal was nothing less than to admit Neergard to membership in that wealthy and exclusive country club, as a choice of the lesser evil; for it appeared, according to Ruthven, that Neergard, if admitted, was willing to restore to the club, free of rent, the thousands of acres vitally necessary to the club's existence as a game preserve, merely retaining the title to these lands for himself.
Mary Ruthven, referring to the home of Marion and Jack. "I know that." "And we are continually running behind. St. John, you ought to get after the niggers and other help." "I wasn't cut out for work, mother," was the sour answer. "But we really must do something," was the half-desperate response. "I've got an idea in my head, mother. If it works, we'll be all right." "What is the idea?"
No tibi soli shall henceforth be the impress on my shield; to thee alone will I ever turn; and till your beams restore your country and revive me, the springing laurels of Edwin Ruthven shall whither where they grew!" Wallace folded him to his heart; a tear stood in his eyes, while he said in a low voice: "If thou art mine, thou art Scotland's. Me, she rejects.
John Ruthven was a young man of twenty-five, tall, thin, and with a face that was a mixture of craftiness and cowardice. He was the son of a half-brother to the late Colonel Ruthven and could boast of but few of the good traits of Marion's family.
To Ruthven Hall, Alan was permitted to bring his young Canadian friend, who, he was secretly convinced, stood sorely in need of just such benediction as his saintly aunt could bestow.
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