I can fairly understand Ruth; but
you…!"
"Have you ever been so lonely that the soul of you cried in anguish? Twentyfour hours a day to think in, alone?… Perhaps I did not want to go mad from
loneliness. Near by stood Ah Cum and the young unknown, the former protesting
gently, the latter insistent upon his demands. When I have traversed the streets a houseless wanderer,
driven with curses from every door where I have solicited alms, and with blows
from every gateway where I have sought shelter,—when I have crept into some
deserted building, and stretched my wearied limbs upon a bulk, in the vain hope
of repose,—or, worse than all, when, frenzied with want, I have yielded to
horrible temptation, and earned a meal in the only way I could earn one,—when
I have felt, at times like these, my heart sink within me, I have drank of this
drink, and have at once forgotten my cares, my poverty, my guilt. ”
“Why not?”
“You see, if I do go home my father objects to the College, and as for typing
—”
“Don’t go home. ” She replied gently. Ed. He has sworn that he'll take away my life!"
"Bah!" interrupted Jonathan. ”
“Sure, anything you want. “I’ve broken off my
engagement,” she said, in a matter-of-fact tone, and found her heart thumping in
her neck.
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