As she pulled out one book after another, she noticed that the greater part of them had Charles's name in them.

Ruth's curiosity was at once aroused.

No doubt this was the little corner in his great house in which he chose to read, and these were his favorite books which he had arranged so close to his hand.

If we can judge our fellow-creatures at all, which is doubtful, it is by the books they read, and by those which, having read, they read again.

She looked at the various volumes in the window-seat beside her with new interest, and opened the first one she took up.