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The apartment desig- nated was already crowded with waiting applicants, who regarded, with jealous eye, each addition to their num- ber as so much dimunition of their own individual chance for success. Ruth's cheeks grew hot, as their scrutinizing and un- friendly glances were bent on her, and that feeling of ut- ter desolation came over her, which was always so over- whelming whenever she presented herself- as a suppliant for public favor. In truth, it was but a poor preparation for the inquis...itorial torture before her. The applicants were called out, one by one, in alpha- betical order ; Ruth inwardly blessing the early nativity of the letter H, for these anticipatory-shower-bath medi- tations were worse to her than the shock of a volley of chilling interrogations. " Letter H." 9 194 RUTH HALL. Euth rose with a flutter at her heart, and entered a huge, barren-looking room, at the further end of which sat, in august state, the dread committee. Very respectar ble were the gentlemen of whom that committee was composed ; respectable was written all over them, from the crowns of their scholastic heads to the very tips of their polished boots ; and correct and methodical as a revised dictionary they sat, with folded hands and specta- cle-bestridden noses.
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