’ Captain Roding stared at her, his jaw dropping, while Lucilla hastily turned away, although Melusine caught the laughter in her face. Wood had the advantage of her husband in point of years, being on the sunny side of forty,—a period pronounced by competent judges to be the most fascinating, and, at the same time, most critical epoch of woman's existence,—whereas, he was on the shady side of fifty,—a term of life not generally conceived to have any special recommendation in female eyes. Here he was preparing to leap over the hedge into the fields on the left, when he was intercepted by two horsemen, who, hearing the shouts, rode up and struck at him with the butt-ends of their heavy riding-whips. It dealt with fine aspects of Mr. A distant suggestion of chalets and a glimpse of the road set them talking for a time of the world they had left behind. “You are so inherently gallant, John, so pure of heart. But it was almost choked up with fallen stacks of chimneys, broken beams of timber, and shattered tiles. So presently they got into a hansom together, and Ann Veronica sat back feeling very luxurious and pleasant, and looked at the light and stir and misty glitter of the street traffic from under slightly drooping eyelids, while Ramage sat closer to her than he need have done, and glanced ever and again at her face, and made to speak and said nothing. He tried not to think—of Ruth with her mother's locket, of her misguided father, taking his lonely way to sea. Her aunt had summoned up an altogether too vivid picture of her father as the masterful man, overbearing, emphatic, sentimental, noisy, aimless. But, on the bursting of that bubble, his hopes vanished with it. You say you have twenty-four hundred in your letter of credit.
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