CHAPTER V
At dinner the spinsters invited Ruth to sit at their table, an invitation she
accepted gratefully. There are, then, in this sorry world, people who can be
disinterestedly kind!"
The doctor laughed, gave Spurlock's shoulder a pat, and left the room. ” She replied gently. John turned toward the short
staircase as she alit upon the first creaky step. ’
‘Precisely,’ Gerald repeated. Old Bethlehem, or Bedlam,—every trace of which has been swept away, and the
hospital for lunatics removed to Saint George's Field,—was a vast and
magnificent structure. ’
‘Who was to know if you would find your place?’ countered Martha. Why?
Love was a word of God's, and yet her father had denied it—denied it to the
Book, denied it to his own flesh and blood. He forgot Annabel’s idle attempts at love-making,
all the cul-de-sac gallantry of the moment. Any one less courageous than himself would have
abandoned the attempt from a conviction of its utter hopelessness; but, though it
might for a moment damp his ardour, it could not deter him.
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