"
"No doubt, my dear," acquiesced the carpenter, "no doubt. I'll forgive him if he does. "
He laughed and pushed back his chair. "Because she's a fire-opal, and
to the world at large they bring bad luck. She reminded him sometimes of the one holy and ineffable Madonna, at others
of Berode, the great courtezan of her day, who had sent kings away from her
doors, and had just announced her intention of ending her life in a convent. Before her was a great Gothic portal. But that
was soon put right, and she walked out into London with a peculiar exaltation of
mind, an exaltation that partook of panic and defiance, but was chiefly a sense of
vast unexampled release. I know who she is, and I know that she has been cheated
somehow by the people calling themselves Valade. The relationship seemed to have almost as much to do with
blood and body as a mortgage. It was grated and crested with spikes,
like that he had just burst open, and thinking it a needless waste of time to force
it, he broke off one of the spikes, which he carried with him for further purposes,
and then climbed over it. " The Wastrel tried to reach
Ruth's lips. Am I mistaken? Is
your heart mine?"
"It is—it is; and has ever been," replied Winifred, falling upon his neck.
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