There was no railway beyond Frutigen in those days; they sent their baggage by post to Kandersteg, and walked along the mule path to the left of the stream to that queer hollow among the precipices, Blau See, where the petrifying branches of trees lie in the blue deeps of an icy lake, and pine-trees clamber among gigantic boulders. " The spinsters had no counter-philosophy to offer; so they turned to Ruth, who had singularly and unconsciously invested herself with glamour, the glamour of adventure, which the old maids did not recognize as such because they were only tourists. She had viewed them askance, and without exchanging ideas with any one else in the world about them. She closed her eyes and felt again an echo of the swamping warmth that had attacked her when his lips met hers. ‘But for my dowry, what else? One cannot expect that an Englishman will marry any jeune demoiselle without a dowry. ” The maid discreetly withdrew, and Anna stood transfixed, gazing with puzzled frown at her sister. ‘My wife would say she is English a little. He was pretty successful in Manchester,—a town which may be said to have been the head-quarters of the disaffected. I'm not noble; so my honourable ancestors will not turn over in their graves. Something drew you. He would sit in his inner office and compose conversations with her, penetrating, illuminating, and nearly conclusive—conversations that never proved to be of the slightest use at all with her when he met her face to face. “There’s endless reasons, no doubt, why we shouldn’t,” he said.
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