’ ‘Ah, but why remain penniless? After all, your grandfather Charvill—’ ‘Again with the grandfather? Mon ami, if you imagine that this grandfather will welcome a daughter of Nicholas Charvill, whom he has never forgiven that he married a Frenchwoman, then you have an imagination entirely wrong. "You shall have the sum you require, but——" "But what, Madam!" "Do not misunderstand me," she proceeded. I was certain of it. But she certainly remembered that when she was a little girl he sometimes wore tennis flannels, and also rode a bicycle very dexterously in through the gates to the front door. “Our marriage must be annulled. “Why not? Isn’t the whole thing a lie? Isn’t her reputation, this husband of hers, the ‘Alcide’ business, isn’t it all a cursed juggle? She hasn’t the right to do it. He was always deceived by these rustlings which promised wind and seldom fulfilled that promise. Possessed, at one time, of a share in the South Sea stock, he conceived himself worth twenty thousand pounds. Evidently in the flower of his age, he was scarcely less remarkable for symmetry of person than for comeliness of feature; and, though his attire was plain and unpretending, it was such as could be worn only by one belonging to the higher ranks of society. The spinsters—who on the morrow would vanish out of the girl's life for ever—had already left their imprint upon her imagination. He could not kiss Ruth. He spoke in quick nervous sentences. ” She laughed softly to herself.
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