He knew that at this moment Ruth lay upon her bed in torment, for she was by nature tender; and the reaction of her scathing words, no matter how justifiable, would be putting scars on her soul. From the freshness of the stains, which grew more frequent as they approached the adjoining chamber, it was evident some violence had been recently perpetrated, and the carpenter's own blood froze within his veins as he thought, with a thrill of horror, that, perhaps on this very spot, not many minutes before his arrival, his adopted son might have been inhumanly butchered. “In Paris your sister appeared to me to be a charming student of frivolity. And as he gave back the portfolio to Sir Rowland he contrived, unobserved, to slip the precious document into his sleeve, and from thence into his pocket. ‘I cannot possibly shoot a lady, you know. Brendon,” she said, “if I could ask for advice, or borrow money from any one, I would from you—there! But I cannot. At length she hit upon it: bubbling water. The idea of anything criminal never entered her thoughts. I did not appear, I have never announced myself as ‘Alcide. No one could take the place for anything but what it was, and even Gosse hesitated in the doorway. I promised to put him in touch with some people in Rome, an idea which he warmed to. A vein of conviction mingled with his burlesque. The afternoon had passed now into twilight.
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