After a series of mental gymnastics—occupying the space of a few seconds—it came to him with a shock that here was a new specimen of the species. Ruth was inflammable; she would always be flaring up swiftly, in pity, in tenderness, in anger; she would always be answering impulses, without seeking to weigh or to analyse them. CHAPTER XXXI. “Where is my beautiful wife?” He bellowed from the downstairs. The slack cloth of her habit caught on a curlicue in the carved back of the pew in front, pulling her suddenly about. If only sometimes he would grow angry at her, impatient! But his tender courtesy was unfailing; and under this would be the abiding bitterness of having mistaken gratitude for love. They carried no more than bare subsistence wages; and they demanded all her time and energy. You've been a great help these five days; for he had to have attendance constantly, and neither Wu nor I could have given that. She could smell the savory tinge of his sweat in the air. Here he halted; and, looking upwards, read, at the foot of an immense sign-board, displaying a gaudily-painted angel with expanded pinions and an olive-branch, not the name he expected to find, but that of WILLIAM KNEEBONE, WOOLLENDRAPER.
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