"It gladdens me to hear you talk thus, Joan," said Wood, in a voice of much emotion, while his eyes filled with tears, "and more than repays me for all I have done for you. " "Pray cease these compliments," returned Winifred, "and, if you have any communication to make, do not delay it. "Do not despair, my sweet soul," said Wood, in a soothing tone. She hated it, she hated the mission-house; she hated the sleek lagoon, the palms, the burning sky. Not entirely. ” “I think, Mr. My heart fails me. You promise me you’ll never grow old, you hear?” “I promise. But a middle-aged man like Ramage ought to know better than to draw out a girl, the daughter of a friend and neighbor. ‘Wait, Jacques! I will find the way to open this. Sheppard mysteriously, "old Van told me one thing which has come true already. “If I thought for a moment that there was any chance of a relapse, I should stop here and tell him the truth even now. He has told me sufficient of you—" "My dear," interposed Wood, "for goodness' sake—" "I will speak," screamed his wife, totally disregarding the interruption; "I will tell this worthless creature what I know about her,—and what I think of her. 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. His car, a black Alfa Romeo, waited at the end of the subdivision.
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