” The talk was animated, and remained always brilliant in form even when it ceased to be brilliant in substance. There were neither texts nor rubbish on the walls, but only a stirring version of Belshazzar’s feast, a steel engraving in the early Victorian manner that had some satisfactory blacks. “Fred,” he said, “do you remember taking me to dinner at the ‘Ambassador’s,’ one evening last September, to meet a girl who was singing there? Hamilton and Drummond and his lot were with us. Even in this dread moment Ruth was conscious of a pathetic interest in the scattering pencils. " "So she was," replied the woollen-draper, helping himself to an enormous pinch of snuff with the air of a man who does not dislike to be rallied about his gallantry,—"so she was. She knew that in her new rôle she was as likely as not to be a rank failure. "I am sorry. He delayed the blow till the fortunate conjuncture was past. “I wish I could make every woman, every girl, see this as clearly as I see it—just what the Vote means to us. Wood's displeasure; and he was the more readily induced to do this, as the conversation began to turn upon his own affairs. Nevertheless, relief washed over her, her body rejoicing in the afterglow of twenty years of tension released. “You knew it,” he added, in her momentary silence. All her pride raged at me. “Good, I’m so glad, Lucy. The air was sweet with the perfume of flowers, and the melody of murmuring insects, the blue sky was cloudless, the heat of the sun was tempered by the heather-scented west wind.
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