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There was no reason why she shouldn’t be his restrained and dignified
friend. "Are you returning to Hong-Kong to-morrow by the day boat?"
For a moment Ruth was astonished at the sound of the spinster's voice. Part 7
That was two days before Christmas Eve. ‘It is the life I know. Nothing to do; nothing for the
hands, the mind, the heart. “I will take a carriage,” she said, “and fetch my things. ”
“Cooped up!” he cried. He's the most daring and expert housebreaker that ever
used a crow-bar. I mean to have you! Don’t frown me off
now. There you will be,
in an inner temple. ”
“Right!” he said, and hesitated, and then got up and went into the preparationroom. 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. Gwen made an inquiry, and, directed by Mrs.
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