“I am so sorry to have startled you,” she said, “but I was startled myself. Listening on the dimlit landing, he saw Roding’s face muscles tighten. She raided their settlements in shifts, staggering her kills from tribe to tribe, undiscriminating of their petty politics. But for Ruth, he, Howard Spurlock, might have ended upon the beach, inescapably damned. In the midst of the holy place, which he had formerly profaned, lay the body of his unfortunate mother, and he could not help looking upon her untimely end as the retributive vengeance of Heaven for the crime he had committed. I’m not a bit afraid of anything—scandal, difficulty, struggle. She saw her discarded nun’s habit still on the floor and scooped it up. Flesh and blood, vivid, alluring; she was no longer the symbol, therefore she had become, as in the twinkling of an eye, an utter stranger. Something he saw there had a curious effect upon him. It would have been the right idea, had Ruth been other than what she was. McClintock liked it.
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