‘Where is there that I can go?’ All at once Alderley felt acutely suspicious. His interest was divided: while his ears drank in the sounds, his glance constantly roved from Ruth to the performer and back to Ruth. Here was a hole as wide as a church-door. ’ ‘You see? Not to be trusted,’ Hilary uttered disgustedly. I speak no harm of her. And, if Rachel had not carried a candle, the room would have been plunged in total darkness. Incursions were often made upon its territories by the functionaries of the law; sometimes attended with success, but more frequently with discomfiture; and it rarely happened, unless by stratagem or bribery, that (in the language of the gentlemen of the short staff) an important caption could be effected. It filled his thoughts for the rest of the day, and became an obsession. To shore up a business that never had any foundation, he wanted me to lend him a hundred thousand; and for his sake as well as for mine I had to refuse.
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