“Do not look so uncomfortable, both of you,” she begged. He too looked at the girl, slackened his pace and looked at her again through his eye-glasses, looked over his shoulder after he had passed, and finally came to a dead stop. The thought of their faces, and particularly of her aunt’s, as it would meet the fact— disconcerted, unfriendly, condemning, pained—occurred to her again and again. ‘It is, you understand, that Monsieur Charvill did not—how do you say in English?—having an eye to an eye—’ ‘Didn’t see eye to eye with the Vicomte Valade? That I can well believe. . Accounted extremely pretty in her youth, her features and person expanded as she grew older, without much detriment to their original comeliness. The girl wondered what effect the information would have upon Ah Cum if she told him that until a month ago she had never seen a city, she had never seen a telephone, a railway train, an automobile, a lift, a paved street. But she was disturbed, mysteriously disturbed. During the foregoing occurrences a dead calm prevailed. “There are some people,” he said at last, “who seem fated to carry on their shoulders the burdens of other people. “Earning a salary!” “You’re like a Princess in Exile!” he repeated, overruling her. But a little daughter is one thing and a daughter quite another. 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.
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