The man was mad to marry me. To be free of outward distraction, he shut his eyes and concentrated upon the scraps she had given him; and shortly, with his eyes still closed, he began to describe Ruth's island: the mountain at one end, with the ever-recurring scarves of mist drifting across the lava-scarred face; the jungle at the foot of it; the dazzling border of white sand; the sprawling store of the trader and the rotting wharf, sundrily patched with drift-wood; the native huts on the sandy floor of the palm groves; the scattered sandalwood and ebony; the screaming parakeets in the plantains; the fishing proas; the mission with its white washed walls and barren frontage; the lagoon, fringed with coco palms, now ruffled emerald, now placid sapphire. Her faithful servant struggled, with her assistance, to rise. The new and the old cancelled out; his daughters became quasi-independent dependents—which is absurd. A maidservant held the front door open. I tell you what, Thames," he added, flinging himself carelessly into a chair, "I'd give my right hand,—and that's no light offer for a carpenter's 'prentice,—if that little minx were half as fond of me as she is of you. “What happened to your parents, Lucy? Is it all right if I ask?” Lucy looked at her with a soft gaze. Before her stretched blank spaces, dotted with running people coming toward her, and below them railings and a statue. Ask your own conscience. " And, once more enveloping himself in darkness, he pursued his course. "You thank Heaven for the escape of the man who did his best to get your child's neck twisted. She recoiled. ‘Yes, but I’m probably chasing moonbeams. I have been thinking these things over lately, and it seems to me that marriage for a girl is just the supremest thing in life.
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