You
simply can’t. Small blame to her. Under the circumstances you must permit me to be the best judge of
the identity of the young lady who did me the honour, as an old family friend, of
dining with me. "
"Now for it," thought the woollen-draper, "I shall, at least, ascertain how the land
lies. And then she would find work. For the rest, she derived her
ideas of the married state from the observed behavior of married women, which
impressed her in Morningside Park as being tied and dull and inelastic in
comparison with the life of the young, and from a remarkably various reading
among books. “I’ll tell them
how much you enjoyed dinner, it would give me great
pleasure to tell them that. “Do you think you’ll ever get married, Lucy?”
Lucy shifted uncomfortably as she pulled her makeshift
nightgown—an old T-shirt—over her head. 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. Brendon and Courtlaw who had been
watching for her, met her at the door. Sheppard's weight had destroyed the equilibrium
of the plank: it swerved, and slowly descended.
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