He was manifestly exerting his mind for her, and she found herself fully disposed to justify his interest. “It’s a way of avoiding explanations. Besides," he added cynically, "it is said that God watches over fools and drunken men. Even after this woman had gone, it seemed to Ruth that the room was kindlier than it had ever been. “Still, since it is better to tell you, Sir John is very much in earnest, but his respectability is something altogether too overpowering. Why hadn't he gone on with the girl's story? What instinct had stuffed it back into his throat? Why the inexplicable impulse to hurry this rather pathetic derelict on his way? CHAPTER XV Previous to his illness, Spurlock's mind had been tortured by an appalling worry, so that now, in the process of convalescence, it might be compared to a pool which had been violently stirred: there were indications of subsidence, but there were still strange forms swirling on the surface—whims and fancies which in normal times would never have risen above sub-consciousness. And yet, on the very site of the sordid tenements and squalid courts we have mentioned, where the felon openly made his dwelling, and the fraudulent debtor laughed the object of his knavery to scorn—on this spot, not two centuries ago, stood the princely residence of Charles Brandon, the chivalrous Duke of Suffolk, whose stout heart was a well of honour, and whose memory breathes of loyalty and valour. ’ The shift threw Melusine’s attention off the errant major for the moment. "You have said," pursued the widow, "that she, who has once erred, is irreclaimable. I've a carriage within call shall convey you swiftly to town. Maybe others that I do not know about. "One word before we part, adorable girl— only one," he continued, detaining her. CHAPTER XVI.
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