Gifts came from Florence: rubies and emeralds, a beautiful statue of Santa Maria for their garden grotto, a gorgeous silk tapestry of a hunting scene that alone made the price of her dowry look paltry. "Then it's all over with us. I have always managed to survive, haven’t I?” She was eager to stop talking about her parents. “I saw him stagger and sink down, and the pistol was smoking still in my hand. But to England! What has happened, then?” Already the terror of a few hours ago seemed to have passed away from the girl who leaned back so lazily in her chair, watching the tip of her patent shoe swing backwards and forwards. Her aunt did not object to capital punishment or war, or the industrial system or casual wards, or flogging of criminals or the Congo Free State, because none of these things really got hold of her imagination; but she did object, she did not like, she could not bear to think of people not having and enjoying their meals. “You need have no further trouble. Here they remained till midnight when, calling for their reckoning and their steeds, they left the house. It would have been the right idea, had Ruth been other than what she was. The little spot of rouge was vivid enough now by reason of this new pallor, which seemed to draw the colour even from her lips. At first she could not tell what it was; but as her eyes became accustomed to the light, she recognized the old coat. This lifeless appearance was heightened by the extreme sharpness of her features—especially the nose and chin,—and by the emaciation of her limbs, which was painfully distinct through her drapery.
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