"Are you a poltroon, after all?" "That's it! I ought to have died that night!" "Or is there a taint of insanity in your family history? Alone and practically penniless like yourself! You weren't even stirred by gratitude. Of all crafts,—and it was the only craft his poor father, who, to do him justice, was one of the best workmen that ever handled a saw or drove a nail, could never understand,—of all crafts, I say, to be an honest man is the master-craft. He returned her impressive greeting almost mechanically. There were one or two bitter moments in his life when he had been made to feel that gentility laid on with a brush may sometimes crack and show weak places—that deportment and breeding are after all things apart. Can't I make you see?" "But I'm telling you Ruth loves you. He leaned back in a low chair, and watched her graceful movements, the play of her white hands as she bent over some wonderful machine. "To him I owe everything," continued the widow, "life itself—nay, more than life,—for without his assistance I should have perished, body and soul. I told her I was sick today and she told me to get over myself. As if we didn’t know! The practical trouble is our ages. “H’m!” he said, regarding the wreckage with a calmer visage. “Why shouldn’t one face the facts of one’s self?” She stood up. But at this point he was still subservient, still outwardly humble, in spite of the blackhearted villainy that was even then burgeoning in his breast. " "All right; and thank you. " "But, do hear what it is," rejoined Winifred; "you know I'm shortly to be united to your nephew,—that is," she added, blushing, "when he can be married by his right name, for my father won't consent to it before.
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