The comments on the makeover lessened but were replaced by long admiring glances by boys who had never before given her the time of day. As the novel grew Ruth was astonished to see herself enter and dominate it: sometimes as she actually was, with all her dreams reviewed—as if he had caught her talking in her sleep. 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. This farewell had been particularly distasteful to him. It was not an affair of the conscience; it was vaguely based upon insolence and defiance. She was working very steadily at the Advanced Course in Comparative Anatomy, wonderfully relieved to have her mind engaged upon one methodically developing theme in the place of the discursive uncertainties of the previous two months, and doing her utmost to keep right in the back of her mind and out of sight the facts, firstly, that she had achieved this haven of satisfactory activity by incurring a debt to Ramage of forty pounds, and, secondly, that her present position was necessarily temporary and her outlook quite uncertain. “Is Lady Lescelles in?” he asked the butler. Brendon and I are great chums,” he went on nervously. You do not understand, and you would like to. I got myself locked up to cool off. ‘Why, you have heard yourself all that is being said. Here was the same Ruth who had left him a few minutes since: the same outwardly; and yet…! On the ninth day Spurlock was up and about; that is, he was strong enough to walk alone, from the companion to his chair, to lean upon the rail when the chair grew irksome, to join Ruth and his employer at lunch and dinner: strong enough to argue about books, music, paintings. "Steady, old top! What are you going to do?" "The damned scoundrel!" "I told you that child was opal. She put down the sketch-books and apparatus she had brought with her, pulled out her stool, and sat down. But she did not in the least want to do that.
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