" "Never fear," replied Ben, gravely; "dead or alive I'll pay you, if I lose. ” He dropped his eye-glass with a clatter. " Ruth laughed. He subjected me there to great annoyance by claiming me as his wife. He had scarcely entered the arch, when the indraught was so violent, and the noise of the wind so dreadful and astounding, that he almost determined to relinquish the undertaking. “His stipend forbade it,” she said, and seemed to fall into a train of thought. “You poor child!” he said; “don’t you see the infinite folly of these proceedings? Think! Think of the love and affection you abandon! Think of your aunt, a second mother to you. He had been gone entirely one day, for yesterday afternoon he had departed from Remenham House, and she had waited with patience like a saint, and now it was again the afternoon. With me behaving as if everything was infinitely matter-of-fact, what could he do? And just then Heaven sent old Manningtree—I didn’t tell you before of the fortunate intervention of Manningtree, did I? He was looking quite infernally distinguished, with a wide crimson ribbon across him—what IS a wide crimson ribbon? Some sort of knight, I suppose. He was half-German and half-Cuban she found out, and he was originally from Florida where his relatives and sister still remained.
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