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. ‘And if not her, for she is dead, then
me. “For men have reason, women rhyme
A man scores always, all the time. He said that for him beauty
justified life, that he could not imagine a good action that was not a beautiful one
nor any beautiful thing that could be altogether bad. ”
He consumed Irish stew for some moments. It was, Ann Veronica felt, as a sip or so of that remarkable
blend warmed her blood, just the sort of thing that her aunt would not approve,
to be lunching thus, tete-a-tete with a man; and yet at the same time it was a
perfectly innocent as well as agreeable proceeding. ’
‘Ah, that is good,’ sighed the lady. It was long and narrow, with a ceiling supported by huge
uncovered rafters, and so low as scarcely to allow a tall man like himself to stand
erect beneath it. ‘Give me my pistol!’
Gerald shook his head, slipping the pistol into his pocket. She was thinking fast now, all her senses on the alert. A great
bowl of scarlet carnations gleamed from a dark corner, set against the
background of a deep brown wall. “But,” he said, “you do not blame me altogether?”
She rose to her feet.
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