1. What happened between Ruth and her father that made him hurry off without passing ordinary courtesies with me?" "I suppose I ought to tell you," said Spurlock; "but it is understood that Ruth shall never know the truth. McClintock's was a plantation of ten thousand palms, yielding him annually about half a million nuts. He had this thing for his twin daughters. "And yet—but it is only part of the chain of ill-luck that seems wound around me. Well, you shall know. Listen, it is I. That poor child, trying to escape, and not knowing how. The Protestant Flagellant, who whipped his soul rather than his body, who made self-denial the rack and the boot, who believed that on Sunday it was sacrilegious to smile, blasphemous to laugh! Spurlock had gone back spiritually three hundred years. That world of fine printed cambrics and escorted maidens, of delicate secondary meanings and refined allusiveness, presented itself to her imagination with the brightness of a lost paradise, as indeed for many women it is a lost paradise. 9. She possessed it, astonishing fact! She had summoned this energy so continuously during the past four weeks that now it was abiding; she knew that it would always be with her, on guard. She felt a new warmth in her blood, a strange sense of elation crept over her.
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