“I saw him stagger and sink down, and the pistol was smoking still in my hand. I don’t mean I’m not a good woman—I mean that I’m not a GOOD woman. Even in her painting smock and with her disarranged hair, the likeness between the two girls was marvellous. He was in trouble and she could not help him; that was the ache in her heart. A strange betrothal!—the primal idea of which was escape! The girl, intent upon abrogating for ever all legal rights of the father in the daughter, of rendering innocuous the thing she had now named the Terror: the boy, seeking selfcrucifixion in expiation of his transgression, changing a peccadillo into damnation! It was easy for Ruth to surrender to the idea, for she believed she was loved; and in gratitude it was already her determination to give this boy her heart's blood, drop by drop, if he wanted it. “And think, think”—her voice sank —“of the horrible coarseness!” “What coarseness?” said Ann Veronica. Somebody may be on the watch—perhaps, that old ginger-hackled Jew. The prison was two stories high, with a flat roof surmounted by a gilt vane fashioned like a key; and, possessing considerable internal accommodation, it had, in its day, lodged some thousands of disorderly personages.
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