How Jonathan Wild's House was burnt down 458 XXXI. The music throbbed into the warnings that preceded the king’s irruption. "These packets will establish Thames Darrell's birth, win him his inheritance, and procure him the hand of Winifred Wood. He was always drawing contrasts between a woman’s lot and a man’s, and treating her as a wonderful new departure in this comparison. The real tragedy—which he sensed and toward which he was always reaching—eluded all his verbal skill. The will to live had returned. She was never able to trace the changes her attitude had undergone, from the time when she believed herself to be the pampered Queen of Fortune, the crown of a good man’s love (and secretly, but nobly, worshipping some one else), to the time when she realized she was in fact just a mannequin for her lover’s imagination, and that he cared no more for the realities of her being, for the things she felt and desired, for the passions and dreams that might move her, than a child cares for the sawdust in its doll. To take Spring and Love out of her life, as if there were no human instincts to tell Ruth what was being denied her! And what must have been the man's thought as he came upon Ruth wearing a gown of her mother's? —a fair picture of the mother in the primrose days? Not a flicker of an eyelash; steel and granite outwardly. Beyond was a chaise longue, covered with cushions and shawls laid anyhow across it, together with a discarded tapestry in the making, and a scattering of woollen threads about it. The very sight of these impediments, would have appalled a less courageous spirit than Sheppard's—but nothing could daunt him. "O Massa Ireton! Massa Wild!" ejaculated Caliban, "Shack Sheppart gone!" "Gone? you black devil!—Gone?" cried Ireton. " "It is false," cried Mrs. " "I don't care for that," replied Jack. But I'll tell e'e what we might do——" The young man heard no more. “So what is John up to today?” Lucy asked with a weary smile.
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