But he reckoned without his host. ” “My dear young lady,” the official said irritably, “this man would not have your name and address in his pocket without an object. I am out of your life forever, never having been in it. Lucy was surprised to hear that any party could happen on a week night, but the parents of the house in question were the rich absentee type. At least that, I think, is what makes a clever woman’s independent career so much more difficult than a clever man’s. Look out, it’s coming. I am going to make a fresh start. I didn’t! I didn’t! After all—” For a time her mind ran on daintiness and its defensive restraints as though it was the one desirable thing. At length, about three o'clock, as the first glimmer of dawn became visible through the barred casements of the round-house, the rattling of bolts and chains at the outer door told that some one was admitted. After he was gone in the morning, Ruth would steal into the study and hurriedly read what he had written the previous night. Like a thorough-bred racer, he would sustain twice as much fatigue as a person of heavier mould. He spent a good deal more money and time than he could afford upon the little room at the top of the house, in producing new lapidary apparatus and new microscopic accessories and in rubbing down slices of rock to a transparent thinness and mounting them in a beautiful and dignified manner. Her shoulders began to ache. Her mother tried to soothe her with tales of romance and love, of all the fineries that she would enjoy in the Palazzo, but all Lucia could do was cry until her cheeks twitched and her forehead ached. A dark mass of wreckage, over which hung a slight mist of vapour, lay half in the ditch, half across the hedge, close under a tree from the trunk of which the bark had been torn and stripped.
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