" "By no means," rejoined Wood, hastily. . Why had he kissed her? What had led him into that? Neither love nor passion— utter blankness so far as reducing the act to terms. Pole coolies came joggling along with bobbing blocks of jade—white jade, splashed and veined with translucent emerald green. How little he knew about Ruth—the background from which she had sprung! He knew that her father was a missioner, that her mother was dead, that she had been born on this island, and that, at the time of his collapse, she had been on the way to an aunt in the States. “Every one. Poor fellow! he sometimes indulges the hope of marrying you, when he grows old enough. "Miss Enschede—such an odd name!—are you French?" "Oh, no. She had come across the wicked South Seas which were still infested with cannibals; she had seen drunkenness and called men beachcombers; who was this moment as innocent as a babe, and in the next uttered some bitter wisdom it had taken a thousand years of philosophy to evolve. Amongst other things, he had just brought down an old laced bavaroy, a species of surtout much worn at the period. His cigar burnt out between his fingers, and he threw it impatiently away. " "Never, while I've breath in my body, Captain," rejoined Blueskin, who had joined them. Ruth sighed; Spurlock stood up and drew his hand across his forehead as if awakening from a dream. For his own part he could not sufficiently admire the pluck of this lady, who, notwithstanding all that she had been through, had chosen to appear this evening rather than break her engagement.
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