I am already too much flattered that you should have given me your confidence. ‘Therefore she cannot be the daughter of Suzanne Valade. And how could I come home—when he locks me in rooms and all that?” “I do wish this wasn’t going on,” said Miss Stanley, after a pause. Imagine her, putting herself to all this delay and inconvenience for a young wastrel she did not know and who, the moment he got on his feet, would doubtless pass out of her life without so much as Thank you! And it was ten to one that she would not comprehend the ingratitude. "Because it's not like you," was her answer. His hat was placed upon one pole, his wig on another. "I have not trusted you. She looked down tassels of his shiny shoes with a scowl. You have your work before you, and I——” He kissed her on the lips. 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. . He had found her in a communicative mood, and he used the accumulated skill of years in turning that to account. By following her he had discovered her secret nook in the rocks. " "Quite the contrary," rejoined the woollen-draper, laughing good-humouredly.
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