Ruby's Reward — page 126: what you’re looking at

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~ Both hearts were full of what had occurred the previous day. They knew | ‘that they had betrayed, in the moment of danger, something of the tenderness which they had been learning to feel for each other during the past week ; while Walter reasoned within himself that he had no right to claim anything from Ruby. His sense of honour and pride forbade his making any formal declaration of his love, | until he should attain a position that would place him above the suspicion of being a fortune-hunter. Upon reaching the station Walter took Ruby’s bag and wraps and found her a com- tortable seat in a car, while Mr Gordon re- mained outside to smoke his after-breakfast cigar. The road was a branch, and the train they were to leave on was obliged to wait for another to pass, and thus the young people had about fifteen minutes to them- selves before the final adieus would have to be said. ‘“T hope your trip home will bo an enjoy- able one,” Walter remarked, after they were seated, and anxious to break the silence that seemed to haunt them so persistently. “Tt was very pleasant coming; the scenery is excecdingly fine all tho way. But there is nothing like what I have seen here : this has been a week of weeks to me,” Ruby said, with a little sigh of pleasure, as her mind wandered back over those beautiful days. Walter's face lighted, and his face glowed with pleasme. ‘They had been together almost constantly, and surely, if the time had passed so delightfully, sho must have been happy in his society. __ comitebrokes.comn