A neighbor stopped by as the day wore on, causing her to duck and cower as he rang the doorbell over and over. Her first orders were to summon the rest of her servants to make immediate preparations for her departure for Lancashire. The sing-song girl, seeing Ruth, extended her hands and began to chatter rapidly. Along the floor ran an iron bar to which Jack's chain was attached, so that he could move along it from one end of the chamber to the other. ‘What, miss?’ asked Jack Kimble from behind her. 175 “Before you tell me the whole story,” she emphasized the penultimate word, “just let me do something for you. Who could say that the girl's father had not once been a fashionable clergyman in the States and that drink had got him and forced him down, step by step, until—to use the child's odd expression—he had come upon the beach? She was cynical, this spinster. “You silly fool,” he said. " "I'll give you something better worth keeping," she answered, detaching the ornament from her neck, and presenting it to him; "this contains a lock of my hair, and may remind you sometimes of your little sister. She told the porter to take it to the booking-office, and it was only after a disconcerting moment or so that she found she ought to have directed him to go to the cloak-room.
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