As soon
as he was gone, Jonathan went up stairs to the audience-chamber; and, sitting
down, appeared for some time buried in reflection. Stanley was
inclined to think the censorship should be extended to the supply of what he
styled latter-day fiction; good wholesome stories were being ousted, he said, by
“vicious, corrupting stuff” that “left a bad taste in the mouth. “Quite different. “I was
able to borrow the money. If I don't, you shall clap me in the
Condemned Hold in his stead. Here was the same Ruth who had left him a few minutes
since: the same outwardly; and yet…!
On the ninth day Spurlock was up and about; that is, he was strong enough to
walk alone, from the companion to his chair, to lean upon the rail when the chair
grew irksome, to join Ruth and his employer at lunch and dinner: strong enough
to argue about books, music, paintings. She had treated him badly; she had hurt him and her aunt; she had done wrong
by their standards, and she would never persuade them that she had done right.
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