Viscount Merrivale was eating his breakfast when he chanced upon this announcement. He was late
that morning, and, contrary to custom, was skimming through the paper at the same time. But the
paragraph brought both occupations to an abrupt standstill. He stared at the sheet for a few moments
as if he thought it was bewitched. His brown face reddened, and he looked as if he were about to say
something. Then he pushed the paper aside with a contemptuous movement and drank his coffee.
The next instant an enormous Newfoundland dog rushed panting into his retreat and proceeded to
search every inch of the place with violent haste. The man on the bench sat still and watched him,
but when the animal with a sudden, clumsy movement knocked his crutches on to the floor and out
of his reach, he uttered an excla-mation of annoyance.
He looked at her with grave interest. He was a straight, well-made man; but his kindest friends could
not have called him anything but ugly, and there were a good many who thought him formidable
also. Nevertheless, there was that about him--an honesty and a strength--which made up to a very
large extent for his lack of other attractions.
Ruth Carey had been accustomed to fend for herself nearly all her life. Her lot had been cast in a
very narrow groove, and it had not contained a single gleam of romance to make it beautiful. The
whole of her early girlhood had been spent buried in a country vicarage, utterly out of touch with all
the rest of the world. Here she had lived with her grandfather, leading a wild and free existence,
wholly independent of society, hewing, as it were, a way for herself in a desert that was very empty
and almost un
Cynthia joined quite generously in his laugh, notwith-standing its hard note of ridicule. She had
become keenly interested in this man, in spite of--possibly in consequence of--the rebuffs he so
unsparingly adminis-tered. She was not accustomed to rebuffs, this girl with her delicate, flower-
like beauty. They held for her some-thing of the charm of novelty, and abashed her not at all..
She leaned back in her chair, and tried to appear at her ease; but her heart was
thumping tumultuously. The man was going to propose, she knew--she knew;
and she was not ready for him. She felt that she would break down
ignominiously if he pressed his suit just then.
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