" With this praiseworthy determination, he was hastening down stairs, with the utmost rapidity, when he encountered a female, whom he took, in the darkness, to be Mrs. ’ ‘You mean Valade? Certainly not. A thickly-set, sandy young man, with an unwholesome complexion and grease-smooth hair, had entered the room. He never said hello, as if it had become a personal taboo for him. “But why now? Don’t boys know that I am involved with John right now?” “That’s not the way it works, Lucy. She was too late. I tell you that I love you, Anna, and I believe that you love me. “Oh, I can’t thank you. It was still too dark for reading, but she could see well enough to note the number of the last page—fifty-six. “There’s no delusions, so far as I know,” said Ann Veronica. ‘As for what to do, I wonder if young Charvill would be worth a visit. 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 took his hand in hers. Imagine her, putting herself to all this delay and inconvenience for a young wastrel she did not know and who, the moment he got on his feet, would doubtless pass out of her life without so much as Thank you! And it was ten to one that she would not comprehend the ingratitude.
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