CHAPTER V
At dinner the spinsters invited Ruth to sit at their table, an invitation she
accepted gratefully. ‘But for now, I’m taking you home. She had to wear cream and
a brown sash and a short frock and her hair down, and Gwen cream and a brown
sash and a long skirt and her hair up. You are to make for that and get into the lobby if you can, and so try
and reach the floor of the House, crying ‘Votes for Women!’ as you go. Who is it?”
The man came a little further into the room. She was an indignant queen, no doubt she was
alarmed and disgusted within limits; but she was highly excited, and there was
something, some low adventurous strain in her being, some element, subtle at
least if base, going about the rioting ways and crowded insurgent meeting-places
of her mind declaring that the whole affair was after all—they are the only words
that express it—a very great lark indeed. There was something indeed holding the
whole species back from the imaginable largeness of life. "
"Curse your reward!" exclaimed Kneebone, angrily. She turned to face him and
he kissed her. His two wives have been here. Earles said persuasively. —Sorry to quit your lord—worships, I mean,—I don't know
what I mean," she added, a little confused, and dropping a profound curtsey to
the disguised noblemen, each of whom replied by a bow, worthy, in her opinion,
of a prince of the blood at the least,—"but I've a few necessary orders to give
below. “You mustn’t say anything more to your mother,
Michelle. Here she would
find candy awaiting her, bits of ribbon, books.
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