Beyond was a chaise longue, covered with cushions and
shawls laid anyhow across it, together with a discarded tapestry in the making,
and a scattering of woollen threads about it. She had fallen asleep on the wooden bed,
uncaring of lice or bedbugs. Incursions were often made upon its territories
by the functionaries of the law; sometimes attended with success, but more
frequently with discomfiture; and it rarely happened, unless by stratagem or
bribery, that (in the language of the gentlemen of the short staff) an important
caption could be effected. "Tell me, what did
they call you?"
"Well, the old Kanaka cook used to call me the Golden One, but the natives
called me the Dawn Pearl. What a mercy that the blow aimed at her by the ruffian,
Wild, though it brought her to the brink of the grave, should have restored her to
reason! Ah! she stirs. I am going to help take care of him," said Ruth, quite ordinarily, as though
taking care of unknown derelicts was an ordinary event in her life. The girl
had told him distinctly that her name was Anna. Then most horribly she was clasped about the waist from behind and lifted
from the ground. “You poor thing. . I have read that authors are very selfish and
self-centred. Any man
might have endeavoured to protect himself in this fashion, a man with no one to
care, with an unnameable terror at the thought (as if it mattered!) of being buried
in alien earth, far from the familiar places he loved. But
you,” he continued, moving imperceptibility a little nearer to her, “you are mine. ”
There was a shout of laughter. “I meant it.
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