Both carried packages of books and magazines. Spurlock halted in his tracks. When the hero finally did appear, Ruth became filled with gentle self-mockery. "I see nothing surprising in it," rejoined Jonathan. “I am sure, Anna,” she said, “I do not see why we should conceal the truth from you. Ann Veronica decided to be more explicit. We can get absorbed in play, in games, in the business we do. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with some man?” “What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad as to go off alone?” “After—after what had happened the night before?” “Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and there, sure enough, was yours. Very likely by this time the whole truth is known. The same look she had often seen in the eyes of the drunken beachcombers her father had brought home, and it had not filled her with horror. There was a strange quality of steel in this pretty creature.
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