She wanted to turn him. She was dressed in a tattered black stuff gown, discoloured by various stains, and intended, it would seem, from the remnants of rusty crape with which it was here and there tricked out, to represent the garb of widowhood, and held in her arms a sleeping infant, swathed in the folds of a linsey-woolsey shawl. It was rude and disrespectful to raise her eyes to him, her mother had warned. “You mean to tell me” he said, “that you have a lover? While I have been keeping you! Yes—keeping you!” This view of life he hurled at her as if it were an offensive missile. And because he knew it was a burden, there was no gaiety upon the doctor's face; neither was there speech on his tongue. ‘Hadn’t meant you to know,’ said the nun gruffly. The poor child! What frightful things she must have seen on that island of hers! The noise of crashing glass caused a diversion; and Ruth turned gratefully toward the sound. “I was really interested in his stuff. “Go on!” “People talked to you in Paris about us,” she continued, “about Anna the virtuous and Annabel the rake. It wasn’t clear to me that I had to explain. Seeming to feel that this statement called for explanation, he added, ‘I been working for the sisters six month, see. ‘That’s right, you bone idle do-nothings. She had followed a bobbing white hat and gray jacket until she reached the Euston Road corner of Tottenham Court Road, and there, by the name on a bus and the cries of a conductor, she made a guess of her way. She had not chosen her life, but she was foggy on whether or not it was right to deny others the right to join her in her suffering.
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