Supper was over. What a pity! For all her ignorance of material things—the human inventions which served the physical comforts of man—how much she knew about man himself! She had seen him bereft of all those spiritual props which permit man to walk on two feet instead of four—broken, without resilience. He entered it; crossed the room, in which there was only a small truckle-bed, over which he stumbled; opened another door and gained the stair-head. She had the same sharp nose—which, indeed, only Ann Veronica, of all the family, had escaped. Immortal! You were in the beginning, and all the men in the world who have known what love is have worshipped at your feet. “I wish,” she said, “that you would leave off looking at me as though I were something grisly. Her desires were not for riches. The room was dark and dusty. Ran in the family. ‘He don’t mean you no harm. At the bottom of her heart she was not a bit afraid of Ramage. At once there came an answering knock. The walls were bare, and painted in stone-colour; the floors, devoid of carpet; the beds, of hangings; the windows, of blinds; and, excepting in the thief-taker's own audience-chamber, there was not a chair or a table about the premises; the place of these conveniences being elsewhere supplied by benches, and deal-boards laid across joint-stools. She noted the dank hair on his forehead, the sweat of revolting nature.
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