She had never said anything so horrible to anyone in her life. Outside stood a stocky, combat boot-clad girl of seventeen with a teased mass of spiky bottle-black hair. And yet, she would be easy prey in her present state of mind to any plausible, attractive scoundrel. Hitherto it had been qualified by her conception of all life as a compromise, by her new effort to be unexacting of life. Ruth could not be told now. "You can't go to sea with a book of rules. Already Cosette was her chosen friend. Manning, Lady Palsworthy’s nephew, a tall young man of seven-and-thirty with a handsome, thoughtful, impassive face, a full black mustache, and a certain heavy luxuriousness of gesture. All these experiences have taught me a great deal about life and realities. She recalled that she had heard nothing that first time when Gerald and the captain had burst in upon her. She had never seen so much food in her life as she saw at her own wedding feast. There is no further hope. ‘But you have told them that I have been disguised, no? That I have broken into Remenham House, and—’ ‘No, no, child, don’t be alarmed,’ said her great-aunt, her tone soothing. "The opinions, entertained by the old knight, naturally induced him to view with displeasure the conduct of his son, who warmly espoused the cause he had deserted. Uttering a faint scream, she sank backwards, and would have fallen, if it had not been for the interposition of Blueskin, who, at that moment, staggered into the room with a candle in one hand, and the bottle in the other.
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