" "Would you like to have me come in and talk?" How tender that sounded!—talk! "If you want to. Somehow or other his reputation as a hardened and unassailable bachelor had won for him during the last few years a comparative immunity from attentions on the part of those women with whom he had been brought into contact. ” “But is that really so?” said Ann Veronica. And yet, often when alone, he wondered: had McClintock been wrong, or had she ceased to care in that way? The possibility that she no longer cared should have filled him with unalloyed happiness, whereas it depressed him, cut the natural vanity of youth into shreds and tatters. “If my own mother was alive,” sobbed Ann Veronica, “she would understand. She could not resist enduing persons she met with the noble attributes of the fictional characters. She broke a cobblestone over his head and he was out. His business has thriven; legacies have unexpectedly dropped into his lap; and, to crown all, he has made a large fortune by a lucky speculation in South-Sea stock,—made it, too, where so many others have lost fortunes, your humble servant amongst the number—ha! ha! In a word, Sir, Mr. Now He has taken that out and given it form and beauty—you!" "Wonderful hand!" Ruth seized his right hand and kissed it. " "Very well, Sir," replied Sheppard. So he's come around, then? That's fine. It was a beautiful place that she had found, a round cave by a small stream. And now, come and sit by me, my dear, and let's have a little quiet chat together. " The feminine vanities in Ruth were quiescent; nothing had ever occurred in her life to tingle them into action. In the present instance she did not want any interference; she did not want the doctor's wisdom to edge in between these two young fools and spoil the drama.
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