A Ring of Rubies
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Meade L. T.. A Ring of Rubies
Chapter One. Storming the Citadel
Chapter Two. Cousin Geoffrey
Chapter Three. The Octagon Room
Chapter Four. Borrowed!
Chapter Five. Lady Ursula
Chapter Six. The Aristocrat
Chapter Seven. Mr Chillingfleet
Chapter Eight. I cannot part with my Ring
Chapter Nine. A Telegram
Chapter Ten. Relations
Chapter Eleven. A Bear’s Hug
Chapter Twelve. My Brother’s Sin
Chapter Thirteen. Geoffrey Rutherford’s Keys
Chapter Fourteen. Keys and Locks
Chapter Fifteen. Method in this Madness
Chapter Sixteen. Vanity
Chapter Seventeen. Ugly Poverty and I
Chapter Eighteen. Are the Conditions Impossible?
Chapter Nineteen. My Mother’s Wedding-Dress
Chapter Twenty. Like an Old Picture
Chapter Twenty One. She was Everything
Chapter Twenty Two. Tell him to come to see me
Chapter Twenty Three. The Dearest Bond
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I went home and waited for the week. I was excited, I even felt nervous. I was not a particularly pleasant companion for my mother during these days of waiting. I felt irritable, and the merest trifle made me speak crossly. The boys (we always called my big grown-up brothers “the boys”) twitted me on my London visit. They said my new hat had not improved my temper, and, by the way, where was my new hat?
I said, if it came home it would be in a week. I threw great mystery into my voice when I made this remark, but the boys were essentially matter-of-fact, and did not pursue the inquiry.
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“I do not know what girls are made of in these days,” she remarked in a plaintive voice. “They are quite a different order of being from the girl of eighteen whom I used to know, when I was young. They are obstinate, and are quite sure to tell their elders every hour of the day that they know a great deal more about the ways and doings of life than they do, that they are quite capable of guiding their own actions.”
“Mother, you are not angry?” I said suddenly. “Oh no, dear,” she replied at once.
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