Who could say that the girl's father had not once been a fashionable clergyman in the States and that drink had got him and forced him down, step by step, until—to use the child's odd expression—he had come upon the beach? She was cynical, this spinster. “Will you come in, Sir John. Anything that had love in it! The doctor comprehended that he also had his work cut out. You do not need my compliments. Ruth and Spurlock separated, the one embarrassed, the other utterly dumfounded. Divers plans and figures were chalked upon the walls; and the spaces between them were filled up with an almanack for the year; a godly ballad, adorned with a rude wood-cut, purporting to be "The History of Chaste Susannah;" an old print of the Seven Golden Candlesticks; an abstract of the various Acts of Parliament against drinking, swearing, and all manner of profaneness; and a view of the interior of Doctor Daniel Burgess's Presbyterian meeting-house in Russell Court, with portraits of the reverend gentleman and the principal members of his flock. Once more he begged; but as Ruth only repeated her sharp command, he spun about and raced toward the jungle. The girl suppressed a chuckle that would have been inexplicable. But Manning seemed more and more clearly indicated as a refuge, as security. His most eager inquiries and most lavish bribes could gain no further information than that she had left for England, and that her address was—London. The person, shortly afterwards ushered into the room, seemed by the imperfect light,—for the evening was advancing, and the chamber darkened by heavy drapery,—to be a middle-sized middle-aged man, of rather vulgar appearance, but with a very shrewd aspect.
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