‘Well, shan’t I come to the major’s house up Stratton Street, sir?’
‘I’ll give the major your report, Trodger. "Given a chance, I
can make bread and butter. Some indeed carried themselves, dressed themselves even, rather as
foreign visitors from the land of “Looking Backward” and “News from
Nowhere” than as the indigenous Londoners they were. “Why not? They tell me that London is impossible till after ten, and I want my
first impressions to be favourable. My will never faltered. Woman's love of silk
is not set by fashion; it is bred in the bone; and somewhere, somehow, a woman
will have her bit of silk. Aware of
Quilt Arnold's mode of proceeding, Jack instantly dismounted, and, instead of
knocking, opened the door with the pass-key. ”
“And in Paris——”
“In Paris,” he interrupted, “she was a very delightful companion, but beyond that
—one did not take her seriously. You’ll never even see me again, for that
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matter. So do
please believe that in this matter I am acting for the best. ”
“It’s so strange to think of you—troubled by such things. Besides, she will do no such thing. Her body went
into spasm. So, step by step,
and hurt by hurt, Ruth was learning that John Smith was John Smith and nobody
else.
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