In the presence of the husband of his mistress Rollo was always dignifiedly cheerful, but he never leaped or cavorted as he did when alone with Ruth. “This is all very well,” she said, “but two out of the three are rank deserters— and if the papers tell the truth the third is as bad. Wood strained his eyes to catch a glimpse of the flying skiff. That is where I first knew him. She lay and nibbled at a sprig of dwarf rhododendron. She sat on the edge of her bed and looked about her, at her room, at the row of black-covered books and the pig’s skull. Was the young lady impatient for experience? Was she adventurous? As a man of the world he did not think it becoming to accept maidenly calm as anything more than a mask. Instead of English villas and cottages there were chalets and Italian-built houses shining white; there were lakes of emerald and sapphire and clustering castles, and such sweeps of hill and mountain, such shining uplands of snow, as she had never seen before. You would be alarmed of how sulphurous it is, how sickeningly sweet. On the groundfloor the shutters were closed, or, to speak more correctly, altogether nailed up, and presented a very singular appearance, being patched all over with the soles of old shoes, rusty hobnails, and bits of iron hoops, the ingenious device of the former occupant of the apartment, Paul Groves, the cobbler, to whom we have before alluded.
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