He liked to be near me, he liked to be near any female, especially a young female. She wondered if the second part would overcome his objections? Several times the words had rushed to her tongue, to find her tongue paralysed. But Sheppard answered for him. It is bad policy. "Ye-ah," said O'Higgins, jovially. ’ Her face fell. ” Anna leaned back in the chair and laughed softly. But his own situation was too perilous to admit of his rendering any assistance to the ill-fated waterman. 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. " He stuffed the printed chintz into her arms and smiled into her eyes. " "Poh! poh! say no more about it," rejoined the man hastily. There is light enough from the sun,’ she said, relieved. Her lips came together with an expression between contentment and the faintest shadow of a smile, her manner was one of quiet reserve, and behind this mask she was wildly discontented and eager for freedom and life. “If I was the world I think I should have put down a crimson carpet, and asked you to say what you wanted, and generally walk over me. She got out of bed, her eyes still half-closed, and stood slack jawed.
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