How would it
serve Nicholas to keep the truth from his daughter? A tiny thread of disquiet
troubled him. ”
“In his present mood,” Anna remarked, “he would follow me. Little by little the pool cleared, the whims vanished: so that both Ruth and the
doctor, by the middle of the third week, began to accept Spurlock's actions as
normal, whereas there was still a mote or two which declined to settle, still a
kink in the gray matter that refused to straighten out. It was a curious sight to see how this extraordinary woman, who, it has been
said, was not less remarkable for the extreme delicacy of her features, and the
faultless symmetry of her figure, than for her wonderful strength and agility,
conducted herself in the present encounter; with what dexterity she parried every
blow aimed against her by her adversary, whose head and face, already marked
by various ruddy streams, showed how successfully her own hits had been made;
—how she drew him hither and thither, now leading him on, now driving him
suddenly back; harassing and exhausting him in every possible way, and making
it apparent that she could at any moment put an end to the fight, and only
delayed the finishing stroke to make his punishment the more severe. "Egad!" exclaimed Wood, "you've hit the right nail on the head, anyhow. She tried
to keep her side up by declaring that he had put her into an impossible position,
and he replied by shouting, “Nonsense! Nonsense! Any father in my place would
have done what I did. The money will last longer, and—it
won’t bother you. He had only to recall this fact (which he did in each
crisis) to erect a barrier she could not go around or over. But he might have
broken out of prison, and yet not got over the wall of Clerkenwell Bridewell. Her patience was waning fast. ’
‘It cannot be helped now. Capes went first, finding footholds and, where the drops in the strataedges came like long, awkward steps, placing Ann Veronica’s feet.
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