” He smiled at the naiveté of her suggestion. ‘What happened, ma’am?’ enquired Gerald gently. "It is never too late. What happened between Ruth and her father that made him hurry off without passing ordinary courtesies with me?" "I suppose I ought to tell you," said Spurlock; "but it is understood that Ruth shall never know the truth. Spare me yet a little while, Father! not for my own sake, but for the sake of this poor babe. ” 227 “Your family?” “She was my first wife, and because she turned me, she was like a mother to me. "Silence!" returned Jackson, in a deep whisper; "and don't muddle your brains with any more of that Pharaoh. He has helped me out of scrapes though, no end of times. They turned the corner that joined Michelle's street to her own. 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 is not in a state of mind to bear it. I never let her read stories, or have pets, dolls. It could not be a legal marriage. " "Come, come, Captain," remonstrated Blueskin.
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