She was unusually helpful at breakfast, and unselfish about the eggs: and then
she went off to catch the train before her father’s. “To the young man himself,” he answered, “no! I simply object to his calling
here two or three times a week during my absence. This heroine ruled an island which (in the '80s) was rich with shell—pearl-shell;
and she fought pearl thievers and marauding beachcombers, fought them with
weapons and with woman's guile. We shall be equally matched. “Do you mean, aunt,” she asked, “that my father thought I had gone off—with
some man?”
“What else COULD he think? Would any one DREAM you would be so mad
as to go off alone?”
“After—after what had happened the night before?”
“Oh, why raise up old scores? If you could see him this morning, his poor face
as white as a sheet and all cut about with shaving! He was for coming up by the
very first train and looking for you, but I said to him, ‘Wait for the letters,’ and
there, sure enough, was yours. “You, anyhow, don’t deserve
it,” he said. "You see?" Ruth said. Marvel, who proceeded to
the cart, and took his seat upon the coffin.
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