What a God-forsaken fool he was!
And dimly, out there somewhere in the South Seas—the beach!
Already he sensed the fascination of the inevitable; and with this fascination
came the idea of haste, to get there quickly and have done. On the left lay the heights of
Hampstead, studded with villas, while farther off a hazy cloud marked the
position of the metropolis. How did you get your luggage out of the house? Wasn’t
it—wasn’t it rather in some respects—rather a lark? It’s one of my regrets for my
lost youth. Not since she had discovered it had Ruth touched or opened the mission Bible;
but to-night (the same upon which the wonderful manuscripts started on their
long and circuitous voyage to America) she was inexplicably drawn to it. The Protestant Flagellant, who whipped his soul rather than his
body, who made self-denial the rack and the boot, who believed that on Sunday
it was sacrilegious to smile, blasphemous to laugh! Spurlock had gone back
spiritually three hundred years. "
"What else did you do when alone?"
"I read the encyclopaedia. ”
“Would you let me go on studying for a time?”
“If you order patience. ”
She set the letter down, and drew from her pocket another with a foreign post
mark which had come the day before. "Och! he's a broth of a boy!"
"Why, I thought he'd broken your head, Terry?"
"Phooh! that's nothing? A piece o' plaster'll set all to rights; and Terry
O'Flaherty's not the boy to care for the stroke of a supple-jack. The joy of being loved
thrilled her as nothing before had ever done, a curious abstract joy which had
nothing in it at that moment of regret or even pity.
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