That is, until I investigated Iovelli-Alberti in the
Fourteenth Century!”
They reached a part of the subdivision dubbed “The
Treehouse”, a popular hangout for edgy teens who
smoked joints in its foundation pits. Shari regaled Lucy with soap operatic tales of boy-girl
intrigues at the high school, then spoke of her aspirations
for the future. It was a charming sight to watch the motions of her tiny fingers as she pursued
her task; and though the posture she adopted was not the most favourable that
might have been chosen for the display of her sylphlike figure, there was
something in her attitude, and the glow of her countenance, lighted up by the
mellow radiance of the setting sun falling upon her through the panes of the little
dormer-window, that seemed to the youth inexpressibly beautiful. 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. I’ll buzz
him for you. He taught her theories about mathematics and science
that he invented, theories that were the latest in scientific
discovery and that the Church would have considered
heretical in nature. ’
‘A very low stratagem, Hilary,’ Gerald said, turning on his captain with mock
severity. ‘And it may interest you to know, mademoiselle, that the
first thing Gerald must needs do on reaching town is to rush off to that convent
of yours to make sure you were safe.
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