“Holcroft,” he remarked, “in bald language, and with the usual limitations of his clouded intellect, has still given some slight expression to the consternation which I believe I may say is general amongst us. I think that I am very fortunate to have it to sign. After he was gone in the morning, Ruth would steal into the study and hurriedly read what he had written the previous night. Who knows?—on the analogy of “Squiggles” she might come to call him “Mangles!” “I don’t think I can ever marry any one,” she said, and fell suddenly into another set of considerations that perplexed her for a time. Armed, however, with the implement he had so fortunately obtained, he did not despair of success. . "Perhaps things would have been different if she had lived. Then she would have quiet times, in which she would say to herself, “Now look here! Let me think it all out!” For the first time, it seemed to her, she faced the facts of a woman’s position in the world—the meagre realities of such freedom as it permitted her, the almost unavoidable obligation to some individual man under which she must labor for even a foothold in the world. If you ride past the church, and mount the hill, you'll come to Neasdon and then you'll not have above half a mile to go.
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