‘And she’s—’ She broke off, a sudden light in her eyes. She was an indignant queen, no doubt she was alarmed and disgusted within limits; but she was highly excited, and there was something, some low adventurous strain in her being, some element, subtle at least if base, going about the rioting ways and crowded insurgent meeting-places of her mind declaring that the whole affair was after all—they are the only words that express it—a very great lark indeed. Like the Valades, I imagine. She tucked her stick under her arm and re-read Manning’s letter. It was not a cambric curtain Ruth had drawn across that part of her life: it was of iron. “Look round the table,” she said. Look at this ring;—it's a diamond, and worth a mint o' money.
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