He glanced at Ruth (who had stood with her back
to the wall, pinned there throughout the contest by terror and the knowledge of
her own helplessness), then at the bronze menace, and calculated correctly that
this particular adventure was finished. Earles drew out his cheque book. ’
‘What, a common soldier?’
‘He was not a common soldier. Some of them are now buried at the bottom of the Thames. A man, then, rushed up the entry, and, seizing the unlucky carpenter by the
collar, presented a drawn sword to his throat. The life of a girl presented itself to her as something happy and heedless and
unthinking, yet really guided and controlled by others, and going on amidst
unsuspected screens and concealments. She dropped beside
the chair, sat cross-legged, and laughed at the futile jade-coloured wall. The end of the world seemed at
hand.
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