She was never violent when angry: she became as calm and baffling as the sea in doldrums. A strange betrothal!—the primal idea of which was escape! The girl, intent upon abrogating for ever all legal rights of the father in the daughter, of rendering innocuous the thing she had now named the Terror: the boy, seeking selfcrucifixion in expiation of his transgression, changing a peccadillo into damnation! It was easy for Ruth to surrender to the idea, for she believed she was loved; and in gratitude it was already her determination to give this boy her heart's blood, drop by drop, if he wanted it. The sergeant had not seen it for he understood nothing of what she told him. But he was destined to have every tide of feeling awakened—every wound opened. "Before I go," continued Sir Rowland, "I must beg of you to disclose to me all you know relative to the parentage of Thames Darrell. On some insane score she fancied she had to state her case in verse. ‘You should not kiss me at all, and undoubtedly I should kill you. He was bewildered. ‘I’ve never found a woman who did not drive me into a frenzy of boredom. Wood, despair will come over me; and, dear as this babe is to me, far dearer than my own wretched life, which I would lay down for him any minute, I have prayed to Heaven to remove him, rather than he should grow up to be a man, and be exposed to his father's temptations—rather than he should live as wickedly and die as disgracefully as his father.
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