"The gentleman is a stranger to me, Poll," replied the woollen-draper, with
increased embarrassment. Ramage, by a hundred skilful hints had led her to
realize that the problem of her own life was inseparably associated with, and
indeed only one special case of, the problems of any woman’s life, and that the
problem of a woman’s life is love. It was a curious sight to see how this extraordinary woman, who, it has been
said, was not less remarkable for the extreme delicacy of her features, and the
faultless symmetry of her figure, than for her wonderful strength and agility,
conducted herself in the present encounter; with what dexterity she parried every
blow aimed against her by her adversary, whose head and face, already marked
by various ruddy streams, showed how successfully her own hits had been made;
—how she drew him hither and thither, now leading him on, now driving him
suddenly back; harassing and exhausting him in every possible way, and making
it apparent that she could at any moment put an end to the fight, and only
delayed the finishing stroke to make his punishment the more severe. ‘Jacques!’
She got no further, for Kimble came towards her, speaking fast and low. She drove me. That shining
slope of snow, and how we talked of death! We might have died! Even when we
are old, when we are rich as we may be, we won’t forget the tune when we cared
nothing for anything but the joy of one another, when we risked everything for
one another, when all the wrappings and coverings seemed to have fallen from
life and left it light and fire. “It is a hateful story.
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