“We have,” he said, “to be the utmost friends. Love … to take her in his arms and to comfort her: and then to add to her cup of bitterness the knowledge that her husband was a thief! For himself he did not care; God could continue to grind and pulverize him; but to add another grain to the evil he had already wrought upon Ruth was unthinkable. She had expected a love story; and love was totally absent. For four hours he had shifted his own troubles to the shoulders of these imaginative characters. . “He was alive at four o’clock this afternoon,” she answered, “but the doctors give little hope of his recovery. She laughed a little contemptuously. She roves the blue fields of the North, with the clean North Wind on her lips and her blonde head jewelled with frost— mocking valour and hardihood! Out of the West she comes, riding the great ships and the endless steel ways that encompass the earth, and smoke comes with her and the glare of furnace fires—commerce! From the East she brings strange words upon her tongue and strange raiment upon her shoulders and the perfume of myrrh—antiquity! But oh! when she springs from the South, her rosy feet trailing the lotus, ripe lequats wreathing her head, in one hand the bright torch of danger and in the other the golden apples of love, with her eyes full of sapphires and her mouth full of pearls! "With her eyes full of sapphires and her mouth full of pearls. It’s a world in which the law can be a stupid pig and the police-stations dirty dens. I applaud your prudence: it is, however, needless. They had cried a little, both. “Fred,” he said, “do you remember taking me to dinner at the ‘Ambassador’s,’ one evening last September, to meet a girl who was singing there? Hamilton and Drummond and his lot were with us. "I tell 'ee what, master, if you're more fortinate nor I am, and get ashore, give old saltwater your fare. ‘Oh, my God, she’s gone!’ Wrenching his hand from his friend’s slackened grasp, he darted for the door, Roding behind him. This information was received by Jonathan with a lowering brow.
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