Ruby's Reward — page 124: what you’re looking at

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A silence fell over them for a time, but 16 was at length broken by Ruby, who asked with a shyness in hey manner : ‘Will you tuke me down now, please? Lam feeling much better, and—and do not say anything to Mr and Mrs Marshall about my accident ; I would rather they did not know.” “Very well, I will not mention it,” Walter returned, and she allowed him to support her down the path until they came in sight of their friends, when she assumed a com- posure and brightness which she was far from fecling, and kept it up until she was seated in the carriage and on her way back to Farmer Ruggles» home. The drive home was more quiet than that of the morning had been, for Ruby and Walter still felt the effects of the terrible shock which they had received, while, too, both were conscious of a new hope and ex- perience that had been born within them. At Ruby’s request, ib was agreed that upon their return nothing should be said of her narrow escape, and thus Robert Gordon never knew how near he came to losing his idolised sister on that bright autumn day among the mountains, comichooks.com |