" Not many days after this event, on a bright October morning, the bells rang a merry peal from the old gray tower of Willesden church. That's my maxim; and it's the maxim of every honest man. Presently he became filled with astonishment over the singular fact that Ruth was eluding him in fancy as well as in reality. By the time he had reached the summit of this hill, he had lost all trace of them; and the ardour of the chase having in some measure subsided, he began to reproach himself for his folly, in having wandered—as he conceived—so far out of his course. “Broken-in people! I suppose the world is just all egotistical children and broken-in people. " The girl smiled and began to munch a sandwich. Something in his tone pinched her heart. Anna was singing as she used to sing. "I can never get poor Tom's last look out of my head, as he stood in the Stone-Hall at Newgate, after his irons had been knocked off, unless I manage to stupify myself somehow. She visited the corner that had been her own little garden—her forget-me-nots and candytuft had long since been elbowed into insignificance by weeds; she visited the raspberry-canes that had sheltered that first love affair with the little boy in velvet, and the greenhouse where she had been wont to read her secret letters. Nothing, however, could be discerned, except the crumbling brickwork. She dropped the manuscripts and swiftly brought the coat to him, noting that a button hung loose. ” John introduced her to couple after couple, a dizzying array of new people that she could not catalogue in her memory quickly enough. ” She could practically hear the self-deprecating thoughts racing across his mind, the failed hours of rehearsed lines. He perceived, however, that both the novels he read and the world he lived in discountenanced these assumptions.
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