He wasn't satisfied with an assured income from the paper-mills your grandfather left us. “Girls. “It isn’t only the dance,” she said. To her mind, recalling the picture of him the night before, there had been something tragic in the grim silent manner of his tippling. At times I swear I’ve never met a more jaded fifteen-year-old, and your lie about being sixteen didn’t get by me for one second, believe it. It seemed as if all the precautions previously taken were here accumulated. “You told me that in the Zoological Gardens. That same adventurousness that had already buoyed her through crises that would have overwhelmed any normally feminine girl with shame and horror now became uppermost again. 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. She came very near that night to resolving that she would return to her home next morning. “I have the right of the man who loves you,” he declared.
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