She would come back and write letters, carefully planned and written letters, or read some book she had fetched from Mudie’s—she had invested a half-guinea with Mudie’s—or sit over her fire and think. In vain did the woollendraper offer to set him free if he would restore the stolen article, or give up his associate, to whom it was supposed he might have handed it. But when Ruth's hand fell gently upon his bony head, he knew that no one in this house would ever offer him a kick. Her wedding gown! She wondered if the spirit of the unknown mother looked down upon her. “We are the music and you are the instrument,” she said; “we are verse and you are prose. ” Like most men who lie but seldom, he lied well. “Why should women be dependent on men?” she asked; and the question was at once converted into a system of variations upon the theme of “Why are things as they are?”—“Why are human beings viviparous?”—“Why are people hungry thrice a day?”—“Why does one faint at danger?” She stood for a time looking at the dry limbs and still human face of that desiccated unwrapped mummy from the very beginnings of social life. “I have been training myself to look askance at beautiful things. Stories … love stories: and to-morrow she would know the joy of reading them! It was almost unbelievable; it was too good to be true.
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