You'd not know what to do without me, and shan't drive me off. Nothing shall induce me to act contrary to the dictates of my conscience. The idea of Ruth as a talisman against misfortune—which he now recognized as a sick man's idea— faded as his appreciation of the absurd reasserted itself. He took her fingers and lifted his eyes to hers. “Perhaps by this time you will have heard of the step I have taken in leaving my home. She learned quickly, absorbing all she could as quickly as possible as her adoration grew for him. He heard me; but he never came in to ask what was the matter. His shoulders were bent, his face was furrowed with wrinkles. His looks were fixed on his old benefactor. He felt that he might soon be separated—perhaps, for ever—from the fond little creature he held in his arms, whom he had always regarded with the warmest fraternal affection, and the thought of how much she would suffer from the separation so sensibly affected him, that he could not help joining in her grief. Manning had shown on previous occasions that he found Ann Veronica interesting and that he wished to interest her. He had found her in a communicative mood, and he used the accumulated skill of years in turning that to account. I am engaged to sing every evening at the ‘Unusual’ music hall.
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