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"'I do, your Majesty, I answered. "'Do you know you possess it? he asked. "'As well as a man who is not a king may know, I returned. "'Tush, tush! Kings are no more certain than other men. "'I know I possess this woman's love, I said. "'Would she be willing to make a great sacrifice to help you? "'Anything that I should ask, I replied. "'Ah, I see, I see! Should ask?
In the upper classes the "pub" is called the club, but that makes no more difference to the reason than it does to the rhyme. High and low, the woman's objection to the Public House is perfectly definite and rational, it is that the Public House wastes the energies that could be used on the private house.
Imagine our surprise in finding that a certain dignity and earnestness, akin to that of the visitor, had crept into this woman's life, and found expression in her face and bearing. Such transfigurations cannot take place in a few weeks or months; they are of slow growth, but they are the best rewards of friendship."
But jealousy respects nothing; in the heaven above and on the earth beneath, nothing but itself. The slow fire of self-torment, burning night and day in the miserable woman's breast, flashed its deadly light into her eyes, as the next words dropped slowly and venomously from her lips. "If you had had eyes in your head, you would never have gone to your father," she said.
"I was under the impression you had met him before," I said gravely. "Indeed? And why?" She raised her eyebrows at me. I pushed the matter to a conclusion. "He was ill the other day he has heart trouble. It was necessary for me to open the clothes about his neck. On his breast I saw a little ivory portrait of a woman's head."
"You see, sir, there was no one with whom I might advise in the emergency that came upon me without warning," she explained. "I had no confidante except my mother, and she through madness had turned against me. I had no friend then I have one now, though." And she went to Miss Smith and put her head on the elder woman's shoulder. With her arms about the girl, Miss Smith addressed the governor.
The good woman was so kindly and motherly that she won Meg's whole heart; and to see her sit by the shop window, knitting a very large long stocking for Mr George, but with her eyes scanning every woman's face that went by, made her feel full of an intense and childish interest.
He wanted you to have it that I know and he must have suffered untold anguish because he could not make me understand that he wanted to have me insert something in his will, which would provide against this woman's demands. Even if he had been able to sign the document which I drew up, she could have broken it, because she was not mentioned and remembered in it, and he knew this, of course."
A word it was inaudible but it sounded like part of a woman's name escaped him. He had the appearance, during those few seconds, of a man who looks through the present into a past world. It was all over before even they could appreciate the situation. With a little smile he had leaned down towards Ruth. "You will do me the honor," he murmured, "of presenting me to your companion?"
The artist seemed to have looked through the soft mask of the woman's flesh, through the disturbing and compelling forces of her own consciousness, to the very structure and anatomy of her character. Atavistic, sub-conscious revelations were in the face. It was to see, in terms of art, a scientific demonstration of race, temperament, and the results of their interplay with environment.
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