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” “It was a delightful piece of good fortune that I should have met you,” he answered. ” “I may come a little way, then?” he begged. Probably the latter, for the thronging ballroom was insufferably hot. ‘Well, she’d better learn fast if she wants any truck with me. “And now,” said Ann Veronica surveying her apartment with an unprecedented sense of proprietorship, “what is the next step?” She spent the evening in writing—it was a little difficult—to her father and— which was easier—to the Widgetts. As silent as she had remained about who had brought her home last night. “Dear husband,” she murmured. "That gown is getting shabby. "Ruth?" he called. “There is no—Good God!” he exclaimed. The inner apartment was rather gracefully furnished with a thick, fine Turkish carpet, a good brass fender, a fine old bureau, and on the walls were engravings of two young girls’ heads by Greuze, and of some modern picture of boys bathing in a sunlit pool. The Idle Apprentice. “I refuse. "Oh gracious! he's lost. 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.
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