Chapter XX ANNA’S SURRENDER “This is indeed a gala night,” said Ennison, raising his glass, and watching for a moment the golden bubbles. . Every home is a little recess, a niche, out of the world of business and competition, in which women and the future shelter. "Oh, I've read that!" Spurlock had heard distinctly enough all of this odd conversation; but until the spinster's reference to the family album, no phrase had been sufficient in strength of attraction to break the trend of his own unhappy thoughts. He was continually dramatizing the future, anticipating the singular role he had elected to play. But was it Faith? That is what she was this day going to find out. One marked difference between the poor outcast, who, oppressed by poverty, and stung by shame, had sought temporary relief in the stupifying draught,—that worst "medicine of a mind diseased,"—and those of the same being, freed from her vices, and restored to comfort and contentment, if not to happiness, by a more prosperous course of events, was exhibited in the mouth. But I swear she ain’t told me nothing more, sir. "I'll tell you," replied Jack, with forced calmness. And this utter stranger … loved him! He had no reason to doubt McClintock's statement; the Scot had solved the riddle why Ruth Enschede had married Howard Spurlock. She wasn’t well-liked really, I think people were jealous of her.
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