All the fury had left her, swamped by an inexplicable flood of warmth. There was no disgust in Ruth's heart, only an infinite pity; for only the pitiful understand. ‘Come, I am concerned merely for your safety, you know. I went with him to what I supposed to be the British Embassy, and went through a ceremony which I understood to be the usual form of the marriage one used there. ‘We will converse in your own tongue,’ he said in French as he led her away. 98 < 13 > THE ISLAND CASTLE AT HERCULIS Life with Sebastian was often trying, yet he grew on her far more than Gianfrancesco ever had. She had a feeling as though something had dropped from her eyes, as though she had just discovered herself for the first time—discovered herself as a sleepwalker might do, abruptly among dangers, hindrances, and perplexities, on the verge of a cardinal crisis. You know, I’ve done no work at all this afternoon. It was a large, littered, self-forgetful apartment, decorated with unframed charcoal sketches by various incipient masters; and an open bookcase, surmounted by plaster casts and the half of a human skull, displayed an odd miscellany of books—Shaw and Swinburne, Tom Jones, Fabian Essays, Pope and Dumas, cheek by jowl. So here is your chance, Mademoiselle Charvill. I overheard Jonathan Wild's instructions to Quilt Arnold, and though he spoke in slang, and in an under tone, my quick ears, and acquaintance with the thieves' lingo, enabled me to make out every word he uttered. But these fears, like those he had recently experienced, speedily vanished, and he prepared to return to the roof, congratulating himself that owing to the opportune falling of the bricks, he had in all probability escaped serious injury. "There, he's as safe as Jack Sheppard in the Condemned Hould," laughed the man. And that would spoil it.
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