" "Your hesitation is not in your favour," observed Trenchard, sternly. The four tourists contributed varied sums: the spinsters ten cents each, the girl a shilling, the young man a Mexican dollar. Lord, I am sixty. Stop! we must shut the door, or they'll catch us. That boy—blind as a bat! Why, he hadn't seen the Woman until to-night! From the first chord of the Grieg concerto to the finale of the Chopin ballade, Ruth had sat tensely on the edge of her chair. What was the old tabby at? Unaccountably embarrassed, he cleared his throat. Chapter XXVIII THE HISSING OF “ALCIDE” There was a strange and ominous murmur of voices, a shuffling of feet in the gallery, a silence, which was like the silence before a storm. The idea of Ruth as a talisman against misfortune—which he now recognized as a sick man's idea— faded as his appreciation of the absurd reasserted itself. “I——” The door opened, and the doctor entered softly. ’ A giggle answered him. Jonathan stepped behind a curtain. "'A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. ‘Don’t dare call her that to my face. And Ann Veronica walked beside him, trying in vain to soften her heart to him by the thought of how she had ill-used him, and all the time, as her feet and mind grew weary together, rejoicing more and more that at the cost of this one interminable walk she escaped the prospect of—what was it?—“Ten thousand days, ten thousand nights” in his company.
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