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Ben Scott who was Rose Ransome's mother's cousin and was regarded as an uncle came out of the Court House and walked toward his buggy. The dreaming white mare roused as she heard his voice, and the old brown-and-white setter sprang into the seat beside him. "Howdy, girls!" said the old man, his big loose figure bulging grotesquely over the boundaries of the seat. "Father pretty well?"
It was impossible to see anything. Frenchy had stationed himself forward. He said he had a jump or two left in him yet. Here a faint smile altered for an instant the clear, firm design of Ransome's lips. With his serious clear, gray eyes, his serene temperament he was a priceless man altogether. Soul as firm as the muscles of his body.
All beautiful under the night, all dark or dim, with sudden flashes and pallors and gleams, lamplit and moonlit; and all impressed upon Ransome's brain with an extraordinary vividness and importance, as if he had suddenly discovered something new about Wandsworth High Street. What he had discovered was the blessedness of living as he did in Wandsworth High Street within three minutes' walk of St.
There would be absolutely nothing of Ranny left over for his mother, except the affection he had always felt for her, which, for a woman of Mrs. Ransome's temperament, was the least thing that she claimed. Her instinct had divined Winny infallibly, not only as a wife to Ranny, but as a mother. A mother Winny was and would be to him far more than if she had used her womanhood to bear him children.
But, being in for it now, he swam to the box, and getting behind it, shoved it before him to Ransome's feet. Ransome tried to open it, but it shut with a spring. However, there were air-holes, and still this finger sticking out of one for a signal no doubt. "Are ye alive or dead?" shouted Ransome to the box.
Ransome did not evade it; on the contrary, she used it to demonstrate the indomitable power of Mr. Ransome's will. "I say he ought to be layin' down," she said. "But there He won't. You know what He is since He's been sidesman. It's my belief He'd rise up off his deathbed to hand that plate. It's his duty to go, and go He will if He drops. That's your father all over."
Here you caught one leashing an iniquitous little smile in the corners of her eyes under her lashes; or one, aware of her proud beauty, and bearing herself because of it, with the extreme of indestructible propriety. There were no words to express young Ransome's indifference to proud beauty.
They were living, all three of them, in a state of tension most fretting to the nerves. The whole house fairly vibrated with it. It was as if the fearful instability of Mr. Ransome's nervous system communicated itself to everybody around him. At the cry or the sudden patter of Ranny's children overhead, Mr. Ransome would be set quivering and shaking, and this disturbance of his reverberated.
She had wetted her pillow with her tears; she had flung it aside and was digging her hands into Ransome's pillow with a tearing, disemboweling motion. Every now and then, with the regularity of a machine, she gave out a sob and a groan that shook her. He found her so. She turned on her side as he entered, and showed him her face scarlet and swollen with crying. "What have you come for?" she said.
He gave me a look, a hungry, passionate look, then he grew as white as the paper he had just subscribed with his name. "I am ruined," he murmured. "I have made unwarrantable use of Mrs. Ransome's money; her return has undone me. Delight, I love you, but I cannot face the future. You will be provided for " "Will I?" I put in softly, very softly, for my way was strewn with pitfalls and precipices.
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