‘Except Captain Roding,’ agreed the old lady, nodding at the butler. It was easy for him to see that she desired to be agreeable to him. You’d better not have all the money on you; you had better open a small account in the postoffice and draw it out a fiver at a time. But for Ruth, he, Howard Spurlock, might have ended upon the beach, inescapably damned. She had tried him as a Crusader, in which guise he seemed plausible but heavy—“There IS something heavy about him; I wonder if it’s his mustache?”—and as a Hussar, which made him preposterous, and as a Black Brunswicker, which was better, and as an Arab sheik. He was a civil servant of some standing, and after a previous conversation upon aesthetics of a sententious, nebulous, and sympathetic character, he had sent her a small volume, which he described as the fruits of his leisure and which was as a matter of fact rather carefully finished verse.
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