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So he took his leave, and Ruth abode with the Corderys and Miss Quiney. Disloyal though she felt it, she caught herself wishing, more than once, that her lord could have taken dear Tatty back with him to Boston. I desire to depict Ruth Josselin here as the woman she was, not as an angel.
"I understand," she said, "that Lady Caroline wishes a word with me." With a slight bow she led the way through a low window that opened upon the Corderys' best parlour, through that apartment, and across a passage to the door of a smaller room lined with shelves formerly a stillroom or store-chamber for home-made wines, cordials, preserves, but now converted into a boudoir for her use.
At parting for Randolph went over to Bermuda the young friends, who had no other property under their control, exchanged Corderys with each other; and nearly half a century afterwards, when one of them had become a Senator of the United States, and the other Minister Plenipotentiary to Russia. Randolph stated at a public dinner in Norfolk, that he still possessed the Cordery of Tazewell.
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