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Updated: September 29, 2025
'You must, Selah, Ronald said, with all the force of his enthusiastic nature, fixing his piercing eyes full upon her. 'You must, I tell you. Call me Ronald. 'Very well Ronald, Selah said at last, after a long pause. 'Good-bye, now. I must be going. Good-bye, and thank you. Thank you.
'Oh, does it? she said, in her provoking, mocking manner. 'Then you propose to marry me, I suppose, on the balance of the best Scriptural opinion. 'Not at all, Selah, Ronald replied without a touch of anything but grave earnestness in his tone it must be admitted Ronald was distinctly lacking in the sense of humour. 'Not at all, I assure you.
'Why, then, Selah, Ronald answered confidently, taking her hand boldly in his own and actually kissing her yes, kissing her; 'why, then, Selah, suppose we say Monday fortnight? 'It's awfully soon, Selah replied, half grumbling. 'You don't give a body time to think it over.
Well, Selah, he went on aloud, toying unreproved with her pretty little silver bracelet, 'let us be practical. You belong to a business family and you know the necessity for being practical. There's a great deal to be said in favour of my hanging on at Oxford a little longer.
"Yes, that's the great thing," Selah said; "it's more important than attracting a crowd. That's all we shall ask of you; let her act out her nature. Don't all the trouble of humanity come from our being pressed back? Don't shut down the cover, Miss Chancellor; just let her overflow!" And again Tarrant illuminated his inquiry, his metaphor, by the strange and silent lateral movement of his jaws.
What a regime for a high-spirited girl like you to be compelled to live under, Selah! 'It is, it is! Selah answered, vehemently. 'I wish you could only see the way father goes on at me all the time about chapel, and so on, Mr. Wal Herbert, I mean. You wouldn't wonder, if you were to hear him, at my being anxious for the time to come when you can leave Oxford and we can get comfortably married.
Selah Adams, by virtue of the fact that during her college years she had belonged to a sorority with Greek letter coverings and many gruesome rites within, was the one person engaged in the suffrage campaign who recognized the advantage to be derived from secrecy in organizing the women for the struggle. She perceived the appeal that this would make to their pride and ambition.
Ronald stepped back a pace or two, and stood looking at her a little sadly with his hands folded. 'Oh, Selah, he cried in a tone of bitter disappointment, 'don't speak like that to me, don't, please. Don't, don't tell me that you don't really love me that you're going to marry me for nothing else but out of mere compassion for my weakness and helplessness!
There were cries of "Lord! Lord! have mercy!" Smothered shrieks and sobs filled the air; pale faces stared at each other like spectres. People fell upon their knees, and cried out that they felt the power of the Lord. "My soul sinks in deep waters, Selah;" cried the preacher, "but they are the waters of grace and faith, and I am convicted of all my sins."
Another round of applause had broken out, directed perceptibly to some apology, some solemn circumlocution, of Selah Tarrant's; this covered the sound of the agent's voice, as well as that of a confused and divided response, proceeding from the parlour. For a minute nothing definite was audible; the door remained closed, and Matthias Pardon reappeared in the vestibule.
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