The idea of Ruth as a talisman against misfortune—which he now recognized as a sick man's idea— faded as his appreciation of the absurd reasserted itself. THE PRISON-BREAKER. But he might have broken out of prison, and yet not got over the wall of Clerkenwell Bridewell. He stalked her, he stared at her, he craved her, he sidled slinking and propitiatory and yet relentlessly toward her, until at last she awoke from the suffocating nightmare nearness of his approach, and lay awake in fear and horror listening to the unaccustomed sounds of the hotel. “And think, think”—her voice sank —“of the horrible coarseness!” “What coarseness?” said Ann Veronica. “Nigel is like all men,” Lady Lescelles continued. But supposing he is? Supposing he made but one misstep? Your island would be a haven of security. Will you lend me the money for my ticket to London?” “With all the pleasure in the world,” he answered heartily. What could I do at home? The other’s a crumple-up—just surrender.
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