She was dressed in a tattered black stuff gown, discoloured by various stains, and intended, it would seem, from the remnants of rusty crape with which it was here and there tricked out, to represent the garb of widowhood, and held in her arms a sleeping infant, swathed in the folds of a linsey-woolsey shawl. He would repeat them innumerable times, and patiently Ruth would repeat her answers. Maggot. “For my own part I have come fully now into my inheritance. People spoke of him everywhere as a young man of great promise, a politician by instinct, a keen and careful judge of character. Melusine seized her chance. Sometimes it seemed to him that he was an impostor: that Ruth believed him to be one Howard Spurlock, when he was only masquerading as Spurlock. He had reacted by pushing her away, disgust and frustration on his face. He loved the sea, and could give a good account of himself in any weather. There were moments when she doubted whether the whole mass of movements and societies and gatherings and talks was not simply one coherent spectacle of failure protecting itself from abjection by the glamour of its own assertions. “Of course I will,” he answered. He tried not to think—of Ruth with her mother's locket, of her misguided father, taking his lonely way to sea. Nothing is settled upon. As they left Florence, dying men and women still scrabbled through the streets, screams emanating from the rows of houses, beggars running up to the horses, sick children in their arms, their eyes bleeding, their noses running, begging to join them in their journey out. I am your first, of course you feel strongly.
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