“I wonder how it is,” she exclaimed, “that my friends have so much more confidence in me than I have in myself. These women could not be bad, else the hotel would not have permitted them to enter! Still, the scene presented a riddle: to give immunity to the black women who went about all but naked and to damn the white for exposing their shoulders! She had eaten but little; all her hunger had been in her eyes—and in her heart. With Bess's assistance he then climbed up to the window, which, as has just been stated, was secured by iron bars of great thickness crossed by a stout beam of oak. She could not stir hand or foot. Here was the same Ruth who had left him a few minutes since: the same outwardly; and yet…! On the ninth day Spurlock was up and about; that is, he was strong enough to walk alone, from the companion to his chair, to lean upon the rail when the chair grew irksome, to join Ruth and his employer at lunch and dinner: strong enough to argue about books, music, paintings. For some days we shall be very idle there among the trees and rocks. ” He fancied that she was yielding, but her eyes fell once more upon that fatal envelope, and her tone when she spoke was colder than ever. I should as soon think of trusting a woman. A thickly-set, sandy young man, with an unwholesome complexion and grease-smooth hair, had entered the room. Ruth could not very well object, since an air of distinction would go with Taber. “Yet it is my last evening, and I think —if you are sure that you would like to have me—that I will risk it. You won't refuse me, I'm sure; so no more need be said about the matter. “You must play for us again sometime.
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