Well, after all, he seemed to be turning the subject. All this—
the island and its affairs—was an old story; but her own peculiar distaste had
vanished to a point imperceptible, for she was seeing the island through her
husband's eyes, as in the future she would see all things. Gianfrancesco took her that night gently, for which
she was glad. As Leonardo had himself
pronounced, who better than a mountebank to teach of the perils awaiting the
unwary? Who better than a wastrel to demonstrate the worth of thrift? And who
could instruct better in the matter of affections than one who had thrown them
away?
‘If he had loved me,’ she said, in the flat tone she had learned to use to conceal
her vulnerable heart, ‘he would have left me at Remenham House to live a life of
an English lady. The less said, therefore, on this point the better;
because, as nothing is to be gained by it, it would only be trouble thrown away. They don’t now. "Yes, my angel, to her—rest her soul! She extorted it from me, and bound me by
a solemn oath to fulfil it. "Hope to. Presently he
became filled with astonishment over the singular fact that Ruth was eluding him
in fancy as well as in reality. The swellings appeared under her arms and a general
panic spread through the Palazzo. I’d ruin the things if I so much as touched one. But oh, how weary I
am! I know.
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